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COUNTRY MANSION For sale – spectacular Celtic Manor

FASHIONISTA A celeb designer who puts the glam into glamorous

HOT SHOTS Two men, one woman, and lots of gun dogs

SKY AT NIGHT A night with the stars in England’s darkest forest

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...less than 8 miles from Newcastle Close House Hotel & Golf is an elegant and beautiful 18th century mansion set in stunning Northumberland countryside with two 18 hole golf courses that you’ll want to play again and again.

A beautiful location close to Newcastle

Spacious and luxurious rooms

The wonderful Northumbrian landscape envelops the contoured fairways to create a destination for the discerning golfer. Whether challenging your skill on the greens or relaxing in the comfort of No 19 club house lounge and restaurant, our professional staff and extensive list of facilities make playing at Close House a luxurious experience.

Close House also makes the perfect venue for offsite business meetings, corporate events, special celebrations and christmas parties.

The finest furniture and details to be remembered The perfect place to celebrate after your big day.

We recently opened the new Courtyard at Close House. The 12 Courtyard rooms offer the highest quality bedrooms to make you feel even more special.

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Over the summer of 2011 many property professionals are reflecting that the future for the housing market looks strong and solid.

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hroughout much of 2011 the London market has seen rising house prices due to excess demand and a shortage of supply.

The international buyer is certainly keen to invest in the UK and the international headquarters of London city. It is clear that, to many people, the UK still provides a very safe haven for property investment.

Property prices have readjusted over recent years and realistic pricing is still required in many locations to achieve sales.

Turbulence in the European market, with the restructuring of sovereign debt from many of its members, will continue to create increased pressure on banks throughout those countries, and in such times increasing numbers of people are beginning to reflect that property is the safest location for investment.

In the North East of England we are selling the majority of properties at 2003 prices and, as we approach 2012, increasing numbers of economists are telling us that our supply of housing stock is woefully inadequate for the increasing demand of the next three years. This can only lead to one thing; increased values.

Over the last six months our company has been involved in a great number of exciting developments, including the sale of four prime residential development sites, where, for the first time in five years, we saw very competitive bidding from buyers wanting the land to build on.

We are very excited about some of our residential development schemes which we are looking forward to launching in 2012, as well as the ongoing developments we have, ranging from the magnificent Glororum development, near Bamburgh, to the fabulous modern apartments in the heart of Ponteland village, as well as good quality family homes in the Tyne Valley and, at the coast, at Seaton Delaval.

Sanderson Young have always been known for their skills in working with builders to satisfy demand in a specific location, assist with pricing the scheme correctly and developing a good strong marketing brief to ensure the scheme can be sold quickly.

The latest version of our website was launched in September 2011 and the activity from that website has doubled from the previous version. Clever new media, promoting houses of the week, matching applicant searches and tempting those who are browsing, are increasing our results and volumes of valuations, viewings and sales agreed.

As we go to press one of the featured houses in our rare! collection in the heart of Jesmond, which was only launched two weeks ago, at a guide price of £1.4

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safe houses million, has had six viewings and three offers and I am delighted to see that confidence for prime Newcastle housing priced at £1 million plus is beginning to return. There are many clients who carefully watch the housing market, ready to buy and re-invest in luxury housing.

Increasing numbers of rental houses have balanced the books between those who wish to buy and own their own home and those who want the flexibility to move very quickly, without long term obligations. A word of caution for those who are renting – please watch the mid and high value housing very closely, since we are beginning to see house prices higher than where they were at the peak of the market in 2006, particularly in Jesmond and Gosforth. This is very much evident with Edwardian terraces and good quality semi detached family homes in the mid price categories. It is the first time demand has outstripped supply.

Sanderson Young are delighted to be working with Gentoo Homes, who have a fabulous scheme in Alnwick. They are offering some tremendous finance packages, which are making it very easy for first time buyers to invest in property and to own their own home. It is increasingly important that builders and

developers work with banks to further develop these mortgage deals, as well as part and whole ownership.

Many tenants are now paying a greater rent per month than they would a mortgage, and this imbalance needs to be corrected.

I would like to congratulate my team for their tremendous dedication in a difficult market and for their expertise in bringing results to their clients. We are aware from the statistics in the prime residential areas that we are outperforming the majority of other estate agents, giving good solid advice on how best to sell and how to use the most effective forms of marketing – through websites, the Sanderson Young App and quality promotion like this magazine, as well as regional press.

As European leaders and worldwide bankers negotiate figures that few of us can really understand, we quietly reflect in the North of England on a brighter and more confident six months ahead.

If you have any housing needs, whether to buy, sell, rent or finance, please speak to any of my team for solid, dependable and straight forward advice.

I am available at: duncan.young@sandersonyoung.co.uk or 0191 223 3500.

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Sanderson Young’s principal mission has always been to sell the best quality homes in the most effective and professional manner. This starts when our valuers appraise your home and explain clearly the current market conditions in your location. It is important that you are presented with facts and with values which are specifically relevant to your home. Once we have an instruction our negotiators match your property to “category one” buyers - those who being proactive and have a strong desire to move. Once we receive offers they are thoroughly qualified. We are one of the few estate agents in the region who has their own sales progression department, taking your home from an acceptable offer through to exchange of contract. The successful exchange and completion of a contract is the reward that we receive from our hard work and the expertise of our fabulous team. We would very much like to assist with the sale and letting of your property.

Please let me know if I can help in any way.

Please contact Janet Hopkinson at the rare! office, tel 0191 223 3500, email janet.hopkinson@sandersonyoung.co.uk

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greenlightfordevelopers At last, house builders are now experiencing more positive conditions thanks to plans to allow a major expansion of building on land in the North East formerly designated green belt.

Gateshead and Newcastle councils are planning to allow the building of 36,000 homes on green belt land in an essential move to provide homes to keep up with rising demand.

This is welcome news for house builders, who will welcome this change in the planning system to encourage the building of new homes as demand continues to rise with the ageing population and the increase in single households.

Here at Sanderson Young, we offer a range of services to assist builders, developers and investors.

Our strength is in new homes, residential investment and land sales and we also offer speciality surveying services.

We look forward to assisting in bringing these new prime redevelopment sites to market as conditions continue to improve.

To learn more about Sanderson Young’s professional department, contact NJ Osborne BSc MRICS, tel 0191 223 3500, nicola.osborne@sandersonyoung.co.uk

sywebsitegoeslive September 2011 saw the launch of Version 5 of www.sandersonyoung.co.uk Since its inception in 1999 the website has proved to be a vital part of the business and its recent redevelopment has taken nine months and proven to be a tremendous success.

financialacumen Sanderson Young Private Finance offers more than 30 years of collective experience between our staff, and this high level of experience and expertise pays dividends when you’re attempting to negotiate an extremely challenging mortgage market.

It is incredibly difficult for people to navigate their way round the market themselves these days, simply because of the wildly different policies now being operated by lenders.

We, on the other hand, are securing mortgages every day for people at all levels, including first-time buyers, who we also advise on every step of the home buying process, home movers, people who wish to remortgage and those buying to let.

Our clients value our personal service and the fact that we can potentially save you an enormous amount of time by searching the whole of the market.

Our online mortgage calculator and product finder also offers accurate live product information while we do our utmost to make your move as seamless as possible.

Sanderson Young Private Finance, 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 4AA, 0191 284 3723, email paul.hardingham@sandersonyoung.co.uk

Within the first two weeks of its launch viewing levels and activity on the website had doubled from the normal average as good quality photographs, clear visual images and easy to use tools make the site easier to use and more effective in marketing our properties.

New media is the most important aspect of selling your property, and from our website to the links to the major portal websites, we can ensure that your property is seen by prospective buyers.

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features 12 A country manor For sale – spectacular Celtic Manor

32 Hot shots Two men, one woman, and lots of gun dogs

118 Anyone for tennis?

Membership offer from The Northumberland Club

16 Eat, drink... be merry Tapas from around the world at Cafe No. 95

36 Bold, romantic and fantastical Inside the region’s hippest new hotel and members club, Newton Hall

126 Va, va... ouch!

Our man on two wheels comes a cropper

20 Off piste Chamonix – skiing with va, va, voom

40 All things bright... ...and beautiful, and how to make your garden glow

128 A fitting footballing tribute The campaign to honour the north’s first black footballer

22 Here comes the sun Escape the winter with Sanderson Young Holiday Intros

42 The sky at night Star watching in England’s darkest forest

132 A life’s work Artist Wilson Smith’s mission to honour his late wife

24 Grand designs Behind the scenes with celeb designer Kate Fearnley

70 Let’s move The revolution in residential property rental

134 Continental style Bentley’s new Continental GT, on the road

28 At home with Amynta Designer Amynta Warde Aldam’s beautiful world

120 In with the new The homes creating new landmarks for the region

136 Hidden Gems Places to eat, shop and stay awhile

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Some country hideaways are just made to be shown off, if only to privileged guests

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tudents of architecture agree that Northumberland is home to some of the finest country homes England can offer.

Many date back to the days of the great architectural visionary John Dobson, but to assume the great man has a monopoly on our region’s best country homes is to deny the existence of some notable modern examples.

Celtic Manor is highly contemporary, but like the great country homes of history, it will stand the test of time as it matures into its spectacular woodland setting.

A truly grand country mansion created within the last decade, it is one of the finest new-build detached houses available now in Northumberland and represents a rare opportunity to live in one of the

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county’s most private spots yet within half an hour of Newcastle and its airport.

Contemporary comfort and spectacular style are to the fore in this magnificent property, where every modern need is catered for, notably by the opulent leisure suite with glazed lantern roof, air-conditioned gym, full-sized pool, Jacuzzi and hot tub, handcrafted cocktail bar, changing room, sauna, steam room and wet room.

This spectacular space also features full-height, bi-fold glazed doors to the garden and timber deck, a superb audio system and outstanding LED twinkling lights and spotlighting to best show off the fabulous limestone pillars.

For this is a home full of wow factors, created in superb quality materials and to the highest specification.

They include an imposing hall and walnut staircase with glazed balustrades, a fabulous cinema room with

A truly grand country mansion created within the last decade, it is one of the finest new-build detached houses available now in Northumberland…

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This most contemporary property echoes the grand halls of historyâ&#x20AC;Ś

overhead projector, Bang & Olufsen speakers and black leather-covered walls, and two guest suites with state-of-the-art bathrooms, wet rooms, built-in plasma screen TVs and contemporary fittings.

The entire house boasts intelligent wiring and many of the rooms enjoy built-in speakers and digital control panels for complete flexibility in mood-set audio and lighting.

This is a house to be enjoyed, and it boasts a huge games room with bi-fold doors to the outdoor deck, a statement timber-panelled wall with a contemporary fireplace with stainless steel surround and built-in plasma TV, a Bang & Olufsen music system and hand-crafted cocktail bar with built-in wine coolers.

All this spectacular beauty, yet Celtic Manor is privately situated on the edge of Tranwell Woods. This is a home only those invited get to see, and those who live here do so in luxurious privacy, even though it is close to Morpeth, Newcastle and its international airport.

The property also features closed circuit TV surveillance cameras and a state-of-the-art alarm system, while the private surrounding woodland screens the beautiful grounds from prying eyes, apart from those which enjoy it from the house and the garden room with lantern glazed roof and double terrace doors.

This most contemporary property echoes the grand halls of history with an imposing stone pillared entrance portico and a magnificent reception hall with a double-height void to the galleried landing above.

Meanwhile, the craftsmanship that has been devoted to this home is beyond compare and features superb materials including bespoke walnut furniture and glazed and panelled internal doors.

The focal point of the house is the family kitchen and breakfasting room with walnut panelled wall and contemporary fireplace, walnut cabinets, black granite and appliances including WolďŹ&#x20AC; cooking range and two Sub Zero refrigerators. >>

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Celtic Manor features a kitchen supplied by Herrington Gate - one of the finest handmade kitchens we have seen

<< The kitchen was supplied by Herrington Gate and is one of the finest examples of a handmade kitchen this magazine has seen. Like the rest of the house, it features every modern convenience, with two Fisher & Paykle dishwashers, a Sub Zero extra wide refrigerator with ice and water dispenser and freezer compartment, a Sub Zero professional wine cooler, a Miele cafeteria, a steam oven, microwave oven and warming drawer.

A central island accommodates a WolďŹ&#x20AC; stainless steel cooking range with four gas burners, a griddle, separate hot plate, two ovens and extractor hoods, plus a stainless steel sink, open display areas and a beautiful circular chopping board finished in walnut.

The kitchen also features glazed display cases, impressive lighting and connects to a playroom.

Upstairs, the master bedroom suite features his and hers fitted dressing rooms and a magnificent en-suite bathroom with double Jacuzzi bath, double shower and wet room area.

The guest suite lies above the triple garage and provides a large self-contained apartment with walnut kitchen, granite worktops and built-in appliances, a lounge and bedroom with walk-in dressing room and a stunning en-suite bathroom with tub bath and separate shower room.

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This property is well aware of its grand scale, and its external lighting has been designed to spectacular eďŹ&#x20AC;ect.

And while this is a house which makes a real statement, it is also luxuriously comfortable. The drawing room, for example, features beautiful chandeliers, a superb stone Chesney fireplace, a digital control panel for mood lighting and music and double doors connecting to the games room conservatory.

The conservatory enjoys tremendous views to the south, west and north of the property, and features another beautiful glazed lantern roof, spotlighting,

built-in speakers and air conditioning units and digital audio controls. Two sets of glazed double doors lead from the room onto the gardens.

The bedrooms and dressing rooms are both spectacular and comfortable, while the bathrooms and en suites are fitted to the very highest specifications, featuring designer names such as Duravit Starck and Hans Grohe, built-in plasma screen TVs, wet rooms with rainforest showers and foot massage.

Meanwhile, the master bathroom features a rectangular Jacuzzi set on a raised limestone plinth

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Celtic Manor’s pool and spa features spectacular lighting and glazed doors

with cushion head rests, digital controls and a large plasma screen TV built into the limestone wall.

There are two contemporary wash hand basins set into black granite with walnut drawers beneath and mirrored cabinets above, a double shower and wet room concealed behind a glazed panel with side jets and coloured spotlighting.

The 6.5 acre gardens and grounds surrounding Celtic Manor are extremely impressive and at the front of the approach to the house there is a tree-lined avenue and private drive.

Entry to the private grounds is via an electrically operated sliding gate with closed circuit TV surveillance and entry telephone. The site is screened by magnificent tall trees and has beautiful open lawned gardens with pebbled and stone flagged paths.

And for the home with everything, a triple garage with everything, including electrically operated up-andover timber panelled doors, and for the children of this home, an outdoor soft play area with swings, slide and timber Wendy house – perfect for childish dreams of a home just like this one.

Celtic Manor, Gubeon Wood, Tranwell Woods, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 6BH is available for sale through Sanderson Young’s rare! office, High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle, tel 0191 2233 500. Price on Application

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Newcastle is about to welcome a new concept in bistro dining, with a fabulous range of small sharing dishes and aďŹ&#x20AC;ordable wine.

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t’s 8.30am, and the sun is streaming through the windows as business people, mothers with little ones and assorted others sit down to a bacon sandwich and a latte, looking on as other customers drop by for a cappuccino to take to work.

Duncan Young jumped when the opportunity came up to take over the running of Café No. 95 in the High Street, Gosforth, at the start of the year, and is genuinely delighted with how popular it has become.

It’s a family affair; Duncan’s eldest son Charlie has a part time job, as does his god daughter Rachael.

There is Illy coffee, Chai teas, croissants and bacon rolls, gourmet jacket potatoes, homemade cakes and paninis in a simple enough but quality menu that has all-round appeal.

Now, while holding with this basic premise - and with an alcohol licence already in place - there are adventurous plans afoot.

A little background for those who don’t know: Duncan is MD of Sanderson Young estate agency

with a branch next door, a leading flag-flyer for the Gosforth area and a lover of good food, good wine, and good company.

In which case, broadening the appeal of No. 95 to create an evening bistro is inevitable.

Now fully licensed and with the kitchen build ongoing in the basement, Duncan hopes one day to build onto the pavement with a Paris-style concertina

window extension to be kept open or shut according to the weather. In the meantime, the café mood will transform nightly with table cloths, music, lighting, quality crockery and glass to create a bistro which is close to Duncan’s heart.

“The feel of the place will be very different to what you get during the day,” he says. “We’re planning to run an international menu, based on the idea of Spanish- >>

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“We’ve done a lot of research and we’ve some wonderful wines, nothing outside of the £9.99 to £20 bracket, so the best wines at the right prices” << style tapas dishes for sharing over a bottle of wine.

“We’re developing a signature dish of strips of sirloin with peppercorn sauce and white and black pudding, and dishes like venison sausage in red wine and lentil sauce.

“The intention is to create small plates of food where two people might share two or three dishes and a bottle of wine, with prices ranging from £3.75 to £4.95.”

Interestingly, No. 95 is also looking into the idea of buying some of the region’s finest chefs’ signature dishes.

“We’ve approached Terry Laybourne, for example, and enquired about his cheese soufflé, which is one of the most popular dishes at Cafe 21.

“We’ve also been talking to Mahtab Miah about one of the chicken dishes at Vujon on the Quayside.”

No. 95’s manager Rod Davies is excited about getting

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started. He’s perfecting a menu that will change with the seasons and working on dishes including calamari in tempura batter with aioli; pork medallions in a blue cheese and creme fraiche sauce; chick peas with spinach, coriander and a mildly spiced tomato sauce; seafood cakes with sweet chilli dips and croquettes stuffed with Manchego cheese and Serrano ham or salt cod.

“But even if we do dress it up, it’ll still be a coffee shop during the day,” Duncan adds. “In the evening, it’s not meant to be a formal dining experience, either. We want to give people quality food at a reasonable price.

“It’s about earthy, basic but very good food, at the right price. Good hospitality always excites

me and fine wine is an important part of that. I’m into consistency, high standards, and a friendly, casual atmosphere.”

The wine list, he adds, is extremely important. “We’ve done a lot of research, and we’ve some wonderful wines, nothing outside of the £9.99 to £20 bracket, so the best wines at the right prices. Some restaurants triple the price of their wines, but that’s not what we’re going to be about.

“Although there may be an under-the-shelf private collection range for those who have something to celebrate,” he adds, with another grin.

Cafe No. 95, High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle, tel 0191 284 5533, No95 Bistro will open October/ November 2011, serving evening menus 6pm-9pm

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Chamonix, renowned for its near death experience off-piste skiing, is surprisingly welcoming to lovers of winter sports of all levels, providing an unforgettable holiday even for the intermediate, says Rosie McGlade

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kiing is one of life’s great equalisers, at least for those whose personal image is largely rooted elsewhere. You may be important at work, wildly intelligent or gifted with figures, but the slopes will have you branded according to your ability to conquer them alone, with ‘intermediate’ the moniker lumped on the majority of enthusiasts, try as we will to bend ze knees in all the right places.

In one very special sense, Chamonix is the champion of this noble once-a-year die-hard, the courageous but doomed-to-be average Brit, who finds him or herself barred from the fabled descents of the beautiful people elsewhere in the world.

Of all the runs in all the world, the one that thrills the heart of many is the Vallee Blanche, a 17km off-piste adventure in some of the most beautiful and dramatic

scenery in the Alps, longer with good snow in the valley, in the shadow of Mont Blanc, across glaciers, and, almost uniquely, given its credentials, within easy scope of intermediate skiers. You even access it by lift.

Yes, it will terrify you, but not once you have your skis on and you begin your descent, in its silence and staggering beauty, down the valley’s gentle blue and red gradients, and superbly flattering snow.

The scary bit comes right at the start, when you have to rope up to walk to where it all begins, skis and poles in hand, down an exposed ridge with lethal drops on either side, and which makes great sense of hiring one of the resort’s many ski guides. That, and negotiation of the crevasses further down.

The standard advice is that you do the run towards the end of a week’s skiing, when your head for heights is steadied, and your legs that bit stronger. The rewards are a once-in-a-lifetime skiing experience, where the word unforgettable can be properly applied.

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… the one that thrills the heart of many is the Vallee Blanche, a 17km off-piste adventure in some of the most beautiful and dramatic scenery in the Alps…

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Chamonix’s true hard-core challenges (of which there are a great many - advanced skiers will be pleased to know they can choose much more dangerous options even down the Vallee Blanche), the sort who wouldn’t get out of bed without an ice axe in hand (the Chamonerds), Chamonix is in fact pretty accommodating to all winter visitors.

It has a Chanel shop, for those who like that sort of thing, or like looking at it in any case, lots of other cool boutiques and trendy sportswear emporia, an attractive town centre with a proper traditional heart,

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ice rink, and it’s easy to organise tobogganing, snow tubing or husky rides.

There are a number of good nursery slopes and easy runs, with lots of nice blue runs in Brevent and La Tour, with Les Houches perfect for beginners.

Something for everyone and jolly easy to get to. What more do you want? Fabulous accommodation peut-etre? Well, we have a suggestion here, too.

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If you are beyond intermediate, then the scope for off-piste skiing is enormous…

unlike so many other French stations, real local shops, where you can buy lovely cheese and cakes, and there’s lots of great walking.

It is, therefore, not a bad place at all to end up for those who don’t actually ski or snowboard, but who are there for the mountain air and beauty and the après, and because their partner does.

You can also go all international and get the bus to Courmayeur in Italy for a pasta lunch.

Chamonix is just an hour from Geneva Airport, which gives it a vastly reduced transfer time than many

comparable resorts. There are flights most days between Newcastle and Geneva (check out EasyJet.) Skiing in Chamonix takes place from six separate lift stations, connected by ski bus as it is not possible to ski between them all.

If you are beyond intermediate, then the scope for off-piste skiing is enormous and it’s easy to hire a guide to take you through the fabled Grands Montets region.

However, if you’re building up to the Vallee Blanche, or enjoy a more laid back time on the slopes among some of the most spectacular scenery in Europe, there are a good selection of gentle, open pistes and tree-lined runs at Les Houches and La Balme.

Whether a skier or not, you must take the legendary Aiguille du Midi cable car to the top, and get out and admire the view of the world from 3,800 metres.

It’s a hairy ride, and you’ll most certainly be needing a drink at some point afterwards. More good news Chamonix’s reputation extends from amazing skiing to wild or sophisticated nightlife, depending how you like it. There’s a great selection of bars and clubs, and some fantastic restaurants, the king of which is the Albert 1er with its two Michelin stars.

Chamonix is surprisingly accommodating to children, too, and the resort is very popular with French families.

Away from the slopes, there’s a swimming pool and an

Situated on the edge of the woods with breath-taking views of Mont Blanc, the Cerisier is a luxurious four-storey chalet built in traditional Alpine style in its own huge garden area.

The chalet, sleeping 10–12, has been designed to accentuate light and space with high ceilings and large windows opening straight towards the Drus, making the most of its unique setting in the valley. It is perfectly secluded, yet in easy reach of ski lifts, summer trails and the amenities of Chamonix town.

Among its many fantastic facilities are an outdoor hot tub, a wrap-around seating balcony capturing views in all directions, a six person sauna, log fire, satellite TV, DVD collection, X-Box 360, a snug / cinema room, pool table and dart board, and electric boot warmers.

The ground floor bedroom forms part of a selfcontained apartment with its own living, dining and kitchen area, with a further bedroom adjoining, and three more bedrooms and bathrooms on the first and second floors.

Guests choose the type of holiday they want. The self-catering option has a regular cleaner and optional daily continental breakfast delivery, and organisation of all ski hire, lift passes, lessons and ski guides, while the fully-catered holiday provides a totally bespoke service that is exactly as you want it, with chefs, chauffeurs and a masseuse just the start!

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Middlesbrough-based celebrity designer,

Jane Pikett talks satin, tulle, tantrums and tiaras with

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here can be few things in life as daunting as interviewing a fashion designer; particularly one who is renowned for glamour.

So it was with some trepidation that I set off to see Kate Fearnley, whose designs grace the backs of red carpet regulars such as singers Sarah Harding, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Pixie Lott, TV presenter Zoe Salmon, even Katie Price’s bridesmaids (wedding number three…).

So what does one wear for such an appointment?

In the event, an unremarkable but comfortable ensemble of jeans, stripy shirt and tank top, heels and a statement bag. And no, I needn’t have worried; Kate Fearnley is a very down-to-earth fashionista and on this particular wet Monday in Middlesbrough she is resplendent in - wait for it – leggings and a vest top. In other words, Kate is more comfortable down the pub than gracing the red carpet. In fact, she is so un-fussy, so un-obsessed by style, appearance and ego (unlike so many in her profession) it’s almost disappointing.

This doesn’t last long, however. My tolerance for the admittedly clichéd narcissism, self-obsession and judgemental nature of many in the high fashion set is generally pretty low and Kate makes for a very refreshing change.

“There’s no glamour in this job and I hardly ever wear a dress,” she laughs as we rifle through racks of her designs, all of them extremely glamorous, ultra-feminine and exquisitely detailed.

It strikes me that if I were asked to guess her job I’d probably go for artist, indie songwriter or poet; certainly nothing that generally attracts a pursuer of life in the limelight.

She tells a lovely story of the night of the 2010 Cosmopolitan Awards, when she was presented with a

highly prestigious Young Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year award.

“It was just very, very surreal,” she says, shaking her head, as if still not quite sure it really happened.

“There were all these mega celebs, and some amazing people who’d won awards for all sorts of courageous acts, and there’s me. I felt I shouldn’t have been there at all.

“I was really nervous and literally spoke for about 20 seconds before running off stage. Then, after I’d had a bit too much to drink, they told us we’d all been invited to Downing St the next day, and we had to be there at 8am!”

Kate was horrified, but took being presented to the then-PM’s wife Sarah Brown in her stride. “She was just lovely, thank God,” she says.

One imagines Kate was relieved to head home afterwards to her native Middlesbrough, where she can go to work in her jeans and spend her evenings in the pub.

And while she may not be entirely comfortable on the party circuit, her dresses most certainly are.

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“There were all these mega celebs and some amazing people who’d won awards for all sorts of courageous acts and there’s me, I felt I shouldn’t have been there at all”

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<< ribbon, lace, ruffles and appliqué, Kate’s work is 100 per cent sensational.

Her celebrity client base is glamorous and growing, though she appears entirely unaffected by it.

Fittingly discreet, my plea for stories of tantrums and tiaras is deftly swerved, though Kate will be drawn to admit that dressing Katie Price’s bridesmaids at her mansion was a little, um, “unusual”. The rest is left to my fervent imagination.

Her fabrics, which are sourced worldwide, are sumptuous and her designs cut to flatter, often with a nod to the 1950s with structured busts and hips, exaggerated sleeves, full skirts lined with net and the slinkiest pencil silhouettes.

These are clothes little girls dream of and Kate’s boutique in Middlesbrough’s Linthorpe Road is a modern fairy tale, with pretty wrought iron work, antique mirrors and glass-fronted china cabinets contrasting with flashes of zebra print and neon pink to provide a perfectly apt theatrical backdrop for her creations.

Like Kate’s designs, this place is funky, fresh and raises a smile. The people who shop here generally do so by appointment, selecting designs off the peg or made-to-measure for every event on the social calendar.

When we meet, the Ebor meeting has just made its usual splash at York Racecourse and Kate and the small team of three machinists and pattern cutter who populate the warren of workrooms above the shop, have been very – very – busy.

“We’re rushed off our feet for big events,” Kate says.

“You have to be so careful to ensure exclusivity, so we do hard-core record taking – where each client is going, what she’s wearing and when.”

Kate’s talent for design is in her blood. Her grandmother was a seamstress and her aunt – Liz Ford – was a fashion designer and university lecturer in fashion.

“I learned lots from her, including the reality of this job and the fact that there isn’t much glamour in it,” she says.

Sadly, Liz died when Kate was 16, so she didn’t see her

niece progress from dressing her dolls to become an international designer renowned for her signature quirky sophistication.

“The most important thing is to flatter,” says Kate, who is blessed with a model figure but also enough good sense to know just how vital it is for those of us with curves in the wrong places to feel good when we’re on parade.

“There is nothing worse than feeling uncomfortable,” she says, “and my dresses definitely flatter. Sometimes women come to me and they think they can’t wear a dress, but I know by looking what shapes will suit and new clients are often amazed how good they can look in clothes like these.”

There is a strong theatrical influence running through Kate’s work which, commercial considerations aside, she would like to explore further. “Maybe I’ll do a small collection of the more out-there stuff,” she says. “I would love that.”

Meanwhile, Kate’s designs are now available at more than 80 stockists and online and are featured frequently in those magazine pages which follow the Beautiful People at all the Beautiful Places.

TV presenter Zoe Salmon manages to capture the Fearnley style. “I’ve worn Kate for everything from photo shoots and TV appearances to red carpet events,” she says. “I love the style; sexy but elegant, perfect!”

It seems Kate has discovered the holy grail of fashion – sophisticated, quirky elegance and va, va, voom in one quirky package. Her work is fresh, exciting and doesn’t take itself too seriously; just like her.

Kate Fearnley Boutique, 224 Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 3QW, tel 01642 227 344, www.katefearnleyboutique.co.uk

“We’re rushed off our feet for big events,” Kate says. “You have to be so careful to ensure exclusivity, so we do hard-core record taking – where each client is going, what she’s wearing and when” Above: Ladies’ day

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home sweet home Rosie McGlade visits the incredible home of Amynta warde-Aldam - headquarters of the Tulip and Nettle children’s clothing range and is smitten...

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omeone has just had a fag in the kitchen as we step inside Healey Hall, and the dogs, as usual, are everywhere (there seem way more than four); there’s a gorgeous-looking young man making tea who must be the son, while the daughter is still in bed.

It’s homely as much as it is beautiful. How do they do that? And how does anyone get to have this much good taste? How do these people find each other - the landed son and the fabulous designer? I try to act normal.

Not that it’s easy, as the hall itself, while grand, is one of the most beautiful family homes I’ve ever seen, with something that compels you to stare at every turn.

It’s familiar, in that I’ve had a good look through the Tulip and Nettle website before arriving, and this is clearly where founder and designer Amynta

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Warde-Aldam styles the photo shoots which feature her friends’ children.

It’s also been in loads of magazines and weekend supplements, Amynta says, which she’s fine about so long as it promotes Tulip and Nettle, and which she’s very good at making sure happens, as the house itself, and the family heirlooms within, provide much inspiration.

The estate, with its sweeping views over this hidden, sloping stretch of part-arable, part-forested Northumberland, has been in the Warde-Aldam family for around 200 years. Amynta married into it, having originated from Edinburgh.

She established Tulip and Nettle - a range of very English children’s clothes (with an emerging adults line) entirely made in Northumberland - when her own two children were small, having herself trained and then taught at the illustrious Central St Martins in London, and worked in the heady European design world for several years.

It’s a special local industry we should really be proud of, and which actually sells more than 75 per cent of its stock to customers in London, who are drawn to the high grade design and materials and the story of what Tulip and Nettle is all about.

I think I meet Nettle. I certainly meet Violet - she’s a wiry Jack Russell, the friendliest. Nettle, if it’s her, is older, and smooth haired. Tulip was a pug. They have another pug now, a waddly thing that struggles to keep up, and there’s a sausage dog in the mix, too.

Anyhow, on the back of all this, the name has lost any resonance of twee that I might once, if I’m honest, have attached. As has the range, for that matter, which really is fabulous. It’s not even that expensive. In fact there’s nothing I can write about here with any hint of

the cynical, the cautious. The whole place is a bit of another world. The husband wears red tartan trousers.

You just don’t see that where I come from.

Amynta herself verges on perfect, one of those women who could be French, or Italian; petite, good looking, wearing fantastic clothes yet seeming to have made no effort. Were it not for her big, warm and frequent smile, she’d probably be rather intimidating, but she’s actually really friendly, and, well, lovely.

We’re now in the Hayloft, a large attic room above an old stable block (still with the original wooden stalls inside, all cobwebby, like a storybook scene, which I stumble on by accident as I try to find the way up), a stone’s throw from the hall.

The Hayloft itself is a beamed, clean, bright space full of fragrant rolls of fabrics and the odd sewing machine, ironing board, table with scissors and paper patterns, and racks of little frocks and jackets and things. Like another storybook, I suppose.

“It started in a really teeny way, just when the urge took me to make something as the children were growing up, but it’s got a bit more serious in the last five years,” Amynta says, modestly.

“It’s very, very English. We use a lot of country fabrics, moleskin cords and chunky tweeds. Our central pieces are things like our Hero shirt, which is based on an old, pre First World War cricket shirt from the family home.”

She shows us a striped Eton Rifles coat, the real deal, owned by husband Jamie’s grandfather before the

Great War. It’s beautiful, both in fabric and design, and would look incredibly cool even today. Indeed, there’s a plastic bag of badges attached to it, which her children had it covered with when they wore it as teenagers, which Amynta thought looked wonderful.

I’m sure some mothers would have been horrified.

It’s the lining and old label she particularly loves, and which have informed her range of clothing.

There’s also a chest, made of beautiful red cedar wood to repel bugs, and which has the same grandfather’s name, Lieutenant Colonel Warde-Aldam, on a war-time manila luggage label, another inspiration. It was the chest he took to Egypt, where he fought.

“So the range is rooted in history,” she continues, “but with a modern interpretation. The fabrics we use are incredibly light and soft, they’re not heavy like proper vintage clothes.

“I think that’s been the biggest thing that’s changed in fashion. Even clothes from the 70s, when you pick them up, they feel really heavy.

“Now we have fabrics such as very fine polar fleeces that we might use to line a light cotton dress, and which will make it a lovely warm item of clothing for the winter.”

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<< downturn, although their bridesmaid and page boy range are as healthy as ever (the silk tulle bridesmaid’s dress, incidentally, feels like it’s made of air), and they’ve had to re-strategise to an extent.

“I think what we do anyway is value for money,” Amynta says, “given our production prices are way more expensive than anything mass produced. We’re

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not expensive like typical children’s designer labels like Bonpoint.

“But if there’s a particularly depressing economic news bulletin in the media, we see the effect on sales the very next day.

“I guess that heavy consumption has simply gone out of fashion. We try particularly hard now to make

clothing which has a very enduring quality, things that people will treasure and want to keep, maybe pass down to their own children.

“Things weren’t always as disposable as they have been. I can remember every pair of shoes I had when I was a child, and the thrill of getting a new pair. I can’t imagine my daughter would think back in the same sense at all, but I think maybe it’s healthy in a way.”

There’s a lot of pastel for girls, but no ‘princess’ pinks, and no ‘padded bikinis’, as Amynta refers to it.

“There’s a fine balance between being fun and being inappropriate. We do try to make children’s clothing, and not mini adult clothes.”

In the hall of the Hall, in the fireplace, pieces of spruce mingle with half burnt candles, looking like Boxing Day. Yesterday, they did their winter shoot, Amynta seemingly effortlessly styling it all herself, although it must be hard work. Friends’ children arrived, and did their bit.

“You don’t want them all too perfect or too beautiful, that’s boring.”

It’s a phrase that doesn’t sum her up, nor her clothing range, because it does strive for perfection. But Tulip and Nettle reflects a childhood that’s happy, lovely but practical, and it’s rather seductive for that.

Did you notice I liked it?

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Jane Pikett meets some of the people who keep a country tradition in fine fettle

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If you’re up on the rural economy these days, you will know already that game shooting is said to be close to recession-proof.

It is not a poor man’s sport, yet shooting days are as popular as ever on the region’s moorlands, widely considered to be among the best in the UK. The sport owes its continuing prosperity to the dedicated souls who keep the game, train the dogs and beat and pick up on shoot days.

They’re the largely unsung heroes of a rural way of life that brings millions a year to the region and they’re a dedicated bunch, handing their skills, their commitment to conservation and their love of the country down through the generations.

John The first time I met John Clark, he greeted me at the door of his home with a quiet hello, looked down at the excitable young Dalmatian doing his best to tie me and him up in knots and slowly raised an eyebrow.

“Aye,” he said, after a long pause. “We’d better have a look at him, then.”

And with that, he strolled off down the lane, me alongside, trying desperately to look like I was in control of my dog while my pet did his best to make me look stupid.

Within a few yards, John had quietly relieved me of my dog and – a miracle – had him walking meekly to heel.

There was no yanking, no shouting, no battle of wits.

The dog simply knew his place, and our journey to the beautifully behaved pet I have now began.

There’s a magic about John; a quietly considered, gentle approach which makes dog – and human – stop and listen.

When his gun dogs – Labradors, Springer Spaniels and Working Cockers – are with him, they all look to him,

“I watched this man work his dog and was just fascinated,” he says. “That was it, I wanted to do it”

their pack leader. There is no doubt who is in charge, and no doubt that John’s quiet, often silent commands require no repeat.

“I don’t shout,” says John. “You get better results just being quiet. And I don’t like people who are rough with their dogs. If I have a problem when I’m training a young dog, I just stand back and think for a while, and the answer generally comes.”

This considered approach has made John a favourite trainer for gun dog owners and pet owners – those who keep gun dog breeds and those, like me, who simply need a steady hand.

John and his wife Dot generally breed one litter a year from their Labradors (they have 15 Labradors, Springers and Working Cockers) and the pups from these litters are much sought-after for their superb genes.

John’s skills as a trainer are in evidence in his own dogs and the scores trained by him working on shoots all over the region.

What do John and Dot, who is fully involved in the breeding, look for in a dog? “A good line, a good temperament, and good looks,” he says simply – and the Clark dogs of the Campcolis Stud in Northumberland are all of that and more.

John’s love of gun dog training began years ago when he was invited on a shoot at Langley in the Tyne Valley.

“I watched this man work his dog and was just fascinated,” he says. “That was it, I wanted to do it.”

That man was George Ridley, another renowned

breeder and trainer from the Tyne Valley, and that shoot was the beginning of a passion for training and working gun dogs which has prevailed for close to 30 years.

People bring their dogs to John from far and wide.

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<< John’s best-ever dog? “Jack. He was only my second dog and I’ll never have another like him,” he says, adding quickly that Rod, a handsome black lab (that’s his picture on the previous page) known grandly as Campcolis Rodney (named for Rod Stewart because he’s a star) – comes very, very close.

The errant Dalmatian, by the way, caused a bit of heartache, but John and I got him there in the end and he’s now a dog to be proud of. When people stop and compliment me on his behaviour, I tell them it’s all due to Northumberland’s own Dog Whisperer, John Clark a very quiet man.

John and Dot Clark, Campcolis Gundog Training Centre and Stud, near Hexham, Northumberland, tel 01434 681 873, www.campcolis.co.uk

Nicky I’d assumed in my ignorance that women must be few and far between in the field, but no, says Nicky Gordon. “Women are good organisers, so while they’re certainly in the minority, you sometimes find them in charge of these burly Northumbrian men, which is often interesting,” she says with a smile.

Nicky and her six dogs pick up game for shoots in north Northumberland up to four times a week during the season.

“I went freelance so that I could get the time to work with the dogs on the shoot,” she says.

“I simply love it”

This requires long days out in the field, often walking many miles in filthy weather carrying heavy game. It all sounds about as far as you can get from her ‘other’ job - freelance PA and secretarial support for businesses in the area - and Nicky is passionate about it.

“I went freelance so that I could get the time to work with the dogs on the shoot,” she says. “I simply love it.”

Dogs are of course central to the successful operation of a game shoot, and their roles are clearly defined.

The animals which sit beside the guns are so-called ‘peg dogs’ and they should sit quietly until the end of the drive before being allowed to pick up around the peg area.

Then there are the beaters’ dogs – traditionally spaniels (Working Cockers and Springers) – who flush the game out of the undergrowth, and the picking-up dogs – traditionally Labradors – using their noses to recover shot game in deep heather and woodland, often hundreds of yards away.

In reality nowadays you will see all types of gundog breeds and cross-breeds used in different roles in the field, with spaniels becoming increasingly popular in the picking up teams.

You have to be clear what your dog’s function is going to be and assess its aptitude and attitude before you start training it to the task, says Nicky, who adds that instinct is incredibly strong in dogs bred from working lines.

“They have to have a natural ability for the job,” she says. “They have to be biddable and enthusiastic, with natural curiosity to find things and a desire to work hard, retrieving all day long. They have to want to please you and you need to form a close working relationship.”

Nicky has six dogs, including a young Working Cocker which she is just beginning to train. She also has two retrievers, one yellow lab, a Springer and a black Working Cocker.

It can take up to two years to train one of these animals to the required standard, so is it the shoot itself, or working with and training dogs that she has the most passion for?

“Oh, working with the dogs, definitely,” she says. “There is nothing more rewarding than channelling that natural instinct into a disciplined activity. The rapport that you form with your dog is incredible and the dogs love it so much because they are doing what they were bred to do.”

Nicky respects the views of those who oppose the sport, but as she points out: “The birds live a good natural life on heather moors and open countryside, and game is wild, natural and free range and makes a nutritious, tasty meal.”

“They have to have a natural ability for the job,” she says. “They have to be biddable and enthusiastic…

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essentially your own boss. I wouldn’t swap it”

…It’s a great way of life and you’re outside all the time,

Colin Gamekeeper Colin Lawley is a big country man with a big voice and a big laugh attached.

Standing 6ft 3ins, laughter seems to come as easily as breathing to him, and his guffaws shake the north Northumberland woodland where he tends some 7,500 partridge and pheasant for local shoots.

Colin, who is known by one and all as Shanks – a nickname given to him by a farmer who employed him as a young man who was a good deal skinnier than he is now – also keeps eight dogs for picking up on two shoots.

Nearly half his birds will fall prey to the guns during the season, while foxes and the roads will take another 10 per cent. Shanks will then himself round in spring to raise more birds for next year.

“It’s bloody hard work in all weathers, but somehow you just get stuck in it,” he says, with a hearty laugh.

“I’ve been involved in shooting all my life and I’m 57 now, which shows it’s just a way of life,” he says, adding - with another big laugh - that were he in it for the money, he’d be sorely disappointed.

“You get into it and you just don’t get out of it and that’s all there is to it. You’re out in all weather and when there’s 3ft of snow, you’re in that too. But it’s a way of life and that’s the great thing about it.”

Colin’s children have been involved in shooting since they were kids too, and his son Shaun, 22, is a keeper and his daughter, Lisa, 25, helps out on her days off from her work as a carer. Colin’s wife Susan has also been involved over the years, so it’s a real family way of life.

“I tried to persuade my son out of it,” says Colin, “if only because of the money, but he wouldn’t have it.

It’s a great way of life and you’re outside all the time, essentially your own boss. I wouldn’t swap it.”

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Jane Pikett meets Duncan Fisher, the visionary behind Northumberland’s hippest new hotel, members club and wedding venue, Newton Hall

romantic fantastical i tell Duncan Fisher he reminds me of Willy Wonka, larger-than-life hero of Roald Dahl’s much-loved fantasy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He takes it in good heart; you can’t offend Duncan, he’s good like that.

Anyway, it’s meant in the nicest possible way. Duncan natural-born entrepreneur, enthusiast, lover of life – has so many ideas buzzing about behind his sparkling brown eyes it’s a wonder he can catch them before they whiz past.

A true entrepreneur, he’s always open to opportunity, has no fear and a great sense of fun – and has none of the negatives affecting some others (furrowed brow, stress anxiety, heart bypass).

Also, as a chartered accountant by trade, he is able to keep the risk taker in him in check.

He’s spent the summer living close to Newton Hall - a beautiful Georgian pile in spectacular coastal north Northumberland which he is converting into a unique hotel, members’ club and quirky wedding venue.

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He has a pile of wedding brochures with him; all of them saccharin-coated, po-faced, and full of photos of brides and grooms with faces like a wet weekend in Watford. “Look at this one,” he says, chucking over a brochure featuring a picture of a bride on the run.

“She’s so bloody miserable, she’s running away!

Your wedding should be a fantasy; a wonderful, amazing dream,” he asserts, “and most of all, it should be fun. What happened to that, eh?”

Weddings at Newton Hall, he says, will be brilliantly planned, wonderfully memorable, that bit different from the norm, and huge fun.

Newton Hall will also be the only venue in Northumberland offering outdoor wedding options,

including its own ‘Wedding Hill’, an Italianate wedding terrace, and an expansive beach.

Duncan has always broken the mould, ever since the early noughties when he brought a flash, private-members’ bar and club to Newcastle in the shape of The Apartment in Collingwood Street.

It was very much of its time –moneyed, a bit flash (Dom Perignon at £980 a bottle…) but there was substance behind the style. The food, from a kitchen led by the acclaimed David Kennedy, was superb. The place itself was beautiful. “And the bar staff handed you your drink, with a coaster, rather than chucking it at you,” says Duncan, reflecting on the general tone of Newcastle nightlife at the time.

“Your wedding should be a fantastic dream, a wonderful day,” he asserts, “but it should also be fun. What happened to that then, eh?”

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His business has grown steadily since under its umbrella company, Apartment Group, which is based in Newcastle in offices populated by impossibly beautiful, and extremely efficient, young things.

The empire now includes the multi award-winning Newcastle venues Florita’s Miami Bar and Gardens (I know… I haven’t made it up), Madame Koo’s Hidden Bar and Sneaky Disco next door and nine other venues including the award-winning As You Like It; voted 7th Sexiest Restaurant in the World by The Observer.

They all have a quirky, eccentric vibe, a certain something which has been pitched from way out leftfield and works beautifully.

“We like to be a bit different; that bit quirky,” says Duncan with a broad smile, clambering over what is currently a building site in the garden of Newton Hall.

“Look! This is going to be a spectacularly beautiful outdoor wedding terrace. Look at that view; 360 degrees of glorious Northumberland countryside. What a place to get married!”

Duncan has a magic touch. His venues are consistently fresh, always refreshing. Apartment Group’s reputation is such that word of Newton Hall has got out months before it is due to open and weddings have already been booked for 2012 and 2013. Enthusiastic applications for Newton Hall’s private members’ club (they range from £500-£2,000 a year, plus a range of bespoke VIP packages) are also flying in.

Meanwhile, mad vintage lampshades now adorn the bar of the Joiners Arms pub, just down the lane in Newton by the Sea, which Duncan bought recently.

They are a nod to the quirky motif that prevails throughout Fisher’s venues, and the pub will provide another welcoming base for guests from the hall.

“Park the car and relax; that’s it,” he says. “We’re applying for direct access to the beach, we’re going to add tennis courts, a pool, treatment rooms, hot tubs for all the suites in the estate cottages, beach huts and much more I can’t even talk about yet.

“Newton Hall will be a genuinely unique hotel, members’ club and wedding venue. It will be uniquely relaxed, uniquely fun, and a unique escape.

“People will come to chill and unwind over weeks or weekends. They may even just come for an afternoon to swim, walk, relax, or bring the kids to see a film in the screening room.

“Wedding guests will stay for long, lazy weekends, while the weddings themselves, while being brilliantly planned and imaginatively executed, will also be huge fun.

“There’s no package A, B or C; we’ll work with people’s own imagination, and if that means an Alice in Wonderland theme complete with the white rabbit, that’s what we’ll deliver.”

Tennis courts and a wild flower meadow are being added to beautiful the four-acre grounds, there will be a horse and trap on hand for weddings and any number of fun additions such as tractor rides, beach parties and musicians, and the Hall’s interior decor will

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be fantastically eccentric and very comfortable.

The purpose-built function room and Italianate wedding terrace currently under construction on the footings of the hall’s original orangery will accommodate up to 150 seated guests, making Newton Hall one of the largest wedding venues in the region.

Duncan’s partner Amanda and their daughters Eden, seven, and nine-year-old Maisie have had a great summer with him at Newton by the Sea. “It’s the simple pleasures of this place that we love,” he says. “We’ve had fantastic weekends here, hanging out on the beach, going for walks. It’s a spectacular part of the world.”

He’s most excited when I tell him my husband proposed to me on the beach here, all the more so when I tell him I had a big celebration weekend at the holiday cottages round the corner.

“So you know how great it is!” he says, those brown eyes sparkling. “Imagine this when it’s finished – beautiful, fantasy interiors, a totally relaxed place with direct access to the beach, loads of magical stuff for kids, a pub at the bottom of the garden. It’s perfect.”

Fisher’s vision and his enthusiasm are particularly appealing. It’s the Willy Wonka factor; the innate conviction that anything is possible.

“And I’m lucky,” he says. “I’ve got fantastic people working for me [360 of them] and I’m happy to delegate. I like to be closely involved in the initial

Newton Hall hotel, members’ club and wedding venue Duncan Fisher’s Apartment Group acquired Newton Hall in 2008 and it has been operating until recently as a luxury weekend retreat.

It is now being restored and extended to create a unique hotel, members’ club and wedding venue which will major on fun, relaxation and quirky originality.

“Our slogan is Bold, Romantic and Fantastical, and Newton Hall will be all that,” says Duncan, with a broad smile. “It’ll be grand, stylish (if quirkily so), and beautiful, but it’ll also be a relaxing retreat people won’t want to leave. With 21 rooms and suites, it’ll be a groovy grand retreat in the midst of spectacular Northumbrian coastal countryside. I can’t wait.”

Newton Hall is taking bookings for weddings and private memberships now. Newton Hall, Newton by the Sea, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 3DZ, tel 01665 576 239, email info@newton-hall.com website www.newton-hall.com

romantic concept, but then I delegate to really bright people.”

At home, meanwhile, life is also simple. Family life is important, and favourite holidays are family trips to the Lake District. “The girls can do five miles up a hill now, no problem,” he says, proudly. “I want to get them into fishing now.”

As for everything else in life, “it’s very simple, apart perhaps from brain surgery,” he says. “And that’s how I like it.”

“It’s the simple pleasures of this place that I love,” he says. “We’ve had fantastic weekends up here hanging out on the beach, going for walks”

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Selling or settling down for the foreseeable future, your home’s outdoor spaces deserve just as much attention as the interior, discovers Jane Pikett

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The aptly named (for a specialist in outdoor living, anyway) Andrew Wood hears too many horror stories from people who’ve spent thousands – sometimes hundreds of thousands – importing improbably tropical species to decorate impossibly outlandish gardens.

The result? A garden full of dead stuff. Very expensive dead stuff.

“I tend to think it’s a good idea to plant species that will survive. That helps,” says Andrew, Commercial Partner of Newcastle-based outdoor living specialist Hortis Vivo.

Hortis Vivo brings together highly experienced horticulturalists and designers who work closely with experts in a variety of specialisms relating to outdoor living. These include areas such as outdoor recreation, dining, relaxation and of course outdoor lighting and design. Tennis courts, swimming pools, water features and the like also form part of our portfolio in helping to create beautiful outdoor living spaces.

More and more people are recognising the value of enhancing their outdoor space - and the value of

investing in their green surroundings when they come to sell. Hortis Vivo not only project manage outdoor living developments, it also offers a superior garden maintenance programme. If you invest significantly in your space then you need to protect and nourish your investment with the right help.

This is where a good designer comes in. “Yes, there are a number of things you can do to create a quick fix,” says Andrew. “But outdoor space should have longevity. If you want to buy fully grown acacia tress from Japan at £20,000 a piece, you can. Unfortunately, the risk is that they die.”

Andrew’s top tip? Use someone who knows horticulture. It sounds obvious, but there is a difference between the qualified horticulturalist and the gardener who does a sterling job cutting the grass and trimming the hedge.

“The temptation is to get someone in and just ask for a tidy up,” says Andrew, “but in doing so you can kill off some real hidden gems that could be focal points.”

Andrew, who uses the phrase ‘act in haste and repent at leisure’ with regular monotony, advises anyone

Andrew’s top tip?

Use someone who knows horticulture. It sounds obvious, but there is a difference between the qualified horticulturalist and the gardener…

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who thinks they need a major tidy up to get a horticulturalist in to have a look what’s there first – there can be some absolute gems hiding in there that just beg to be seen. It is also key to understand what plants and species will survive in our local climate.

And for a new property, look first to the style of the house and the setting – using that, along with your own taste and personality, to begin your plans.

Andrew is one of those instinctive souls – almost a mind reader, really - who after only half an hour or so in your company is starting to get pretty close to what might suit your personality.

During our first phone conversation, we fell into talking about my own property – my husband’s childhood home, which we have just taken on.

The garden was planted 30 years ago by my late mother-in-law and hasn’t really been thinned out since. It’s a lovely, big country garden but it definitely needs taking in hand.

“You’re in danger of just getting someone in for one of those tidy ups people talk about, and you could end up losing some real gems.

“First and foremost, gardens are very emotive things.

You go in there with a scythe and you could just end up ruining it. If you walk the garden with a horticulturalist, he or she will find out lots about you at the same time as seeing the pieces that need to be nurtured.”

At the end of our first phone call, before he’s even seen our garden, Andrew has already worked out much that I didn’t actually know.

This he has worked out, quite naturally, simply through conversation, and I am actually quite shocked by how accurately he describes a space that would perfectly suit us and our property. It’s as if he’s known us for years.

“The sad thing is, you see too many gardens that simply don’t fit the property or the people,” he says.

“It’s about creating a balance, and that means not creating a minimalistic garden for a country cottage.

“More and more people understand the value of investing in their outdoor living spaces and the fact that their outside spaces are just as important as their interior design.

“This is obviously important when you come to put your home on the market, when good use of lighting, landscape design, outdoor buildings, tennis courts, pools and water features are so important.

“More and more people understand the value of investing in their outdoor living spaces…

“There is only so much you can do to the inside of your property, but the outdoor space is constantly changing through the seasons and evolving over the years.

“I love my morning wander around my garden. I find myself wandering around, dead heading and noting how things are progressing. I take something from that every day. It’s very calming, and there are many, many people who have still to discover the pleasures of their own garden.”

As mentioned, Andrew relies strongly on his highly attuned intuition. People, he says, tell him so much about themselves, and their tastes, without really knowing it.

“Once you have started talking to someone you soon get an idea of what they want and it’s from there that the design process begins,” he says.

“I know who to design a minimalist garden for, and I know who to talk to about a country garden. I can

tell pretty quickly when someone wants a statement.”

And Andrew is happiest when in the presence of Hortis Vivo’s Horticulturalist, John Taylor. “I’m mesmerised when I hear him talk,” he says. “He talks so easily about plants, his knowledge is amazing and inspiring.”

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The approaching long dark nights are not all doom and gloom. Rosie McGlade

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ne night in August, after his scheduled talk about the stars and the solar system, Gary Fildes took his Kielder Observatory visitors outside, only to see in the Northumberland night sky the most spectacular display of the Northern Lights he can recall here.

“The sky just opened up in front of us with this incredible range of colour. It was just serendipity, awesome,” he recalls. “I couldn’t have timed it better.”

Kielder Observatory, currently the region’s number one tourist destination on the online traveler guide Trip

Advisor, is a futuristic, almost space-age building on stilts on Black Fell, about two miles from Kielder Castle.

Gary, 45, its founder and director, has loved astronomy since lying down to look up through the branches of his Christmas tree at the fairy lights when he was little in Sunderland.

This incredible Observatory is the result of a great life passion that grew from that moment for all things light, mysterious, and twinkling.

It’s incredible because it’s the only one in the country where the sky is truly dark, where there is no light

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And as someone who spends his life gazing into outer space, does he think there’s life out there?

pollution at all. And that makes all the difference.

“We’ve had people drive up from London for an event and then drive all the way back down when it’s finished,” Gary adds.

Not that you get to see the Aurora Borealis here all the time; you have to be pretty lucky for that. They can appear at any time, though naturally you’ve a better chance of seeing them on dark winter nights.

But there are other sights that impress equally.

“For some, it’s Jupiter or Saturn, for others, it’s being able to look through our telescope and see distant galaxies 500 million light years away.

“I’m incredibly passionate about it. I think astronomy is a humbling experience - many people have said the same - but it really does ground you, if you let it in a little bit. It’s an incredible arena in which to practise being a human being, and realise that you are part of something extraordinarily enigmatic and vast.”

There are now around 14 events each month, each of which pretty much sells out. There’ll be more Aurora nights during the winter and many others, including Big Universe nights, looking at events from the Big Bang to today.

And there are good things to look out for, like an asteroid passing between the Earth and the Moon sometime around November. Any comets? “You can never really tell with the majority of them. These types of phenomena come out of the blue. We could have one next week for all I know.”

Events begin at around 7pm or 8pm, and can go on into the early hours if the sky’s doing good things. You arrive, meet Gary and the team, and have a cup of tea.

Gary delivers a 40-minute talk with all the passion he has for his subject. If the theme is Northern Lights, as with our visit, he’ll tell you about the folklore and the science.

Then the group is split into two and everyone gets a chance to look through telescopes at star clusters, gas clouds, planets, shooting stars, and really distant deep sky objects in other galaxies.

It all began with what they call a Star Camp, an American thing Gary had heard of.

“It’s where a group of enthusiasts just turn up with tents and beer. They’re huge in America. There was one in Norfolk, but the skies weren’t as clear, so we started our own off. Today they say the Kielder Star Camp is ranked in the world’s top 10 star parties. We still have them twice a year, and anyone is welcome.”

And as someone who spends his life gazing into outer space, does he think there’s life out there?

“I think the official astronomy line is that there probably is, but at the moment it’s only probably.

Personally, I think that finding signs of that life is something that will happen in our lifetime. Even if it’s green slime under a rock, just something to show that life has got a foothold, can you imagine how incredibly exciting that day will be?”

The European Southern Observatory, he adds, is finding all types of earth-like planets just in our own galaxy. “Just visit their website at www.eso.org and key in ‘alien planets’; it’s fascinating reading,” Gary suggests.

“These are the ‘Goldilocks’ planets - not too hot and not too cold - where it’s possible that life could be sustained in the same way that it is here. The more our technology improves, the more of these planets we’re finding.”

There are around 150 billion stars in our own galaxy, each one like our own sun and surrounded by planets.

In our visible universe, there are something like two billion galaxies, each with a similar number of stars.

Which goes some way to explaining why so many Kielder Observatory visitors return. There’s no shortage of things to look at out there, and the

Above: Gary Fildes

coming dark nights only boost the chances of seeing something incredible.

Kielder Observatory events, £8 for adults, £6 concessions, www.kielderobservatory.org Gary Fildes tel 07805 638 469 For information on when the Aurora Borealis is most likely to be seen, see www.spaceweather.com

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The Mews house Moorlands Hall, Elmfield Sq, Gosforth Price Guide: Price on Application

The Mews House will include at lower ground level, a gymnasium or games room with double doors onto its private courtyard and terrace, as well as a cinema and media room. At upper ground level the hall will connect to a cloakroom/wc and a utility room. The open plan living room, with dining area and state of the art fitted kitchen, will have two sets of double doors overlooking the south facing gardens and leading onto their personal terrace. The magnificent staircase will then lead up to the first floor where there are four double bedrooms, two luxury shower rooms and a family bathroom. Above the master bedroom suite is a further mezzanine with studio/dressing room. The integrated garage and visitor parking facilities will also complement this stunning home.

The Mews House completes the phenomenal success of this beautiful residential scheme and complements the developers, the Adderstone Group, on their attention to detail and fabulous creativity.

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The final completion of this stunning development, set back from Elmfield Road in Gosforth, takes place with the construction of the Mews House. This property is unique within the development, being the only detached stone built, three storey home, which overlooks its south facing private park and garden. The accommodation extends to 2,900 sq ft and is surrounded by magnificent tall trees. The redevelopment of Moorlands Hall was a phenomenal success, with all five luxury apartments selling off plan and representing some of the very best apartments that Newcastle has available.

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sunnyside house High Street, Gosforth

Price Guide: ÂŁ725,000

An outstanding opportunity to acquire a very special and impressive stone built family home in the centre of Gosforth. Dating back to the early 1800s it occupies a magnificent garden site which includes the original Gosforth jail, a two storey building with two store rooms at both ground and first floors.

Reception hall and principal staircase | Cloakroom and wc | Drawing room with marble fireplace | Elegant dining room with double doors to gardens | Family room leading to kitchen and a rear staircase connecting to first floor | Master bedroom | Two further double bedrooms | Family bathroom with separate wc | Fourth bedroom/study connecting to ground floor via rear staircase This very fine house within the heart of Gosforth has a stone pillared entrance, single garage, alarm system, oil fired central heating, and shows obvious potential for further updating and modernising works, subject to planning and building consent. An outstanding opportunity.

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East hall Holywood, Wolsingham

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Price Guide: ÂŁ650,000

East Hall is a sumptuously appointed period house, one of four properties created from the original main hall. Lovingly restored, it stands within private, landscaped gardens with a detached double garage and ample parking, and gas central heating, double glazing, a security system and PP for an orangery.

Entrance portico | Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | Sitting room with French doors to the gardens | Dining room | Study/third reception room Stunning fitted kitchen/breakfast room | Utility room | Four double bedrooms, all with fitted wardrobes and en-suite bathrooms | Double garage and parking for several cars Holywood is an exclusive development comprising the original Holywood Hall, of which East Hall forms a part, surrounded by open countryside and within half a mile from the centre of Wolsingham. Further amenities can be found within the regional centres of Newcastle, Durham, Darlington and Teesside.

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East Molesden Molesden, Near Morpeth

Price Guide: ÂŁ650,000

Situated only a 10 minute drive to the west of Morpeth within this beautiful hamlet of high quality homes is this lovely listed 18th century farmhouse with a two storey barn extension. It has style and character, was extended in 1975, and the old farmhouse and barn have been joined by a very creative design.

Entrance hall | Snug/family room | Sitting room | Lounge | Large kitchen/breakfast room with four feature stone arches | Utility | Magnificent first floor living room | Four double bedrooms, master with en suite | Family bathroom with separate wc | Large walk in pantry/wine cellar | Oil central heating | Some double glazing Externally, there are lovely south facing gardens, stone flagged terrace, parking, a double garage, and a two acre grazing paddock. Molesden has good access to local schools and transport links into Newcastle.

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Keepers Cottage Spoutwell Lane, Corbridge A very attractive stone built detached cottage in a beautiful area of Corbridge, close to the centre of the village. The property has a grazing paddock and the total grounds extend to 3.3 acres. The private drive leads to a gated entrance connecting to the courtyard and a detached garage. The cottage dates back to the 19th century and has evolved tremendously in recent years, with a large stone extension.

Entrance hall | Cloakroom/wc and useful storage cupboard Kitchen and dining room with cream cabinets, built-in appliances and an Aga | Utility | Sitting room with a stone fireplace and glazed double doors to terrace | Three double bedrooms, the master with an en suite bathroom | Family shower room

The property has oil central heating, some double glazing set in wood frames, lawned gardens and is situated in a beautiful location within Corbridge within easy walking distance of the village centre.

Price Guide: ÂŁ895,000

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The lodge The Drive, Gosforth A unique property set back from the High Street on the corner of The Drive. Built in the early 19th Century this Grade II listed stone detached lodge has recently been remodelled by an architect. One of its striking features is a new master bedroom suite with a glass wall opening to the garden, linked to the original lodge by a glass corridor.

A new entrance has also been formed creating a hall and study area.

The house has gas central heating, alarm, and single garage. The south facing garden is private and this deceptively large property is in a very prominent location with easy access to the High Street.

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Sitting room with bay window | Kitchen/dining room Contemporary master bedroom suite | En-suite luxury bathroom/wc | Double bedroom | En-suite shower room/wc Two further bedrooms | Family bathroom/wc | Gardens to front and rear

BankFootCottages Iveston Village, Nr Lanchester, Co. Durham This development of three unique and exclusive homes is located in the much sought after hamlet of Iveston and enjoys panoramic views across the valley. The design of each property incorporates a blend of stone and brick masonry, heritage style windows and high end finishing throughout.

The Genell This wonderfully presented stone built semi detached house has arguably the grandest position within the development with a depth of character suggesting its position has been established for many years. The four bedroom property also boasts a reception hall, three reception rooms, kitchen and breakfast room, and all bedrooms are en suite or have access to a Jack & Jill bathroom. Externally there is a double garage and circa 4 acres of land, ideal for equestrian use.

Price Guide: £599,000 The Mere This magnificently presented stone built semi detached house boasts a secluded site with tall trees, and careful attention has been paid to the positioning of each window, ensuring the beauty of the countryside is captured from each room. With four bedrooms, the master en suite, the property also benefits from a spacious reception hall, three reception rooms, one to the first floor, a breakfasting kitchen and a family bathroom. Externally there is a double garage.

Price Guide: £449,000 The sett This wonderfully presented stone built cluster house is at the very heart of the Bank Foot Cottages development and has a large courtyard to the rear with a raised vegetable/flower garden, and a double garage. The four bedroom property also benefits from a spacious reception hall, a living room, a versatile second reception room, as well as a study area, breakfasting kitchen with French doors to the gardens, family bathroom and two en suite shower rooms.

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Not in a position to be tied down by property? You’re fortunate – the rental market in the region is vibrant and exciting.

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The rental market is thriving at all levels, offering a superb range of homes across city, country and coast, discovers Jane Pikett

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he North East lettings division of Sanderson Young recently secured a tenant for a prestige property being let for £10,000 per month.

Because discretion is crucial in these circumstances, Sanderson Young is not at liberty to divulge who was set to live in the property, though one assumes they will be very comfortable.

This is an example – a not uncommon one – of the robust health of the rental market, which has grown in direct proportion to the economic slow-down.

Ever pragmatic, we Brits have realised that in today’s market, if you can’t sell – or you’d rather wait for prices to rise again, as they will – you’re better off renting.

And so the volume of good quality homes for rent in the region has grown steadily over the last two or three years, allowing Sanderson Young’s lettings division to grow an impressive portfolio of managed properties with it.

“Clearly, property prices will rise again in the next two or three years,” says Sanderson Young managing

director Duncan Young. “In the meantime, people have simply realised the obvious – in the current climate it may be preferable to rent.

“Renting also allows a flexibility that is absolutely crucial to many people, including footballers and business executives.

“There is superb quality of choice of properties to rent now in the middle and at the top end of the market.”

Even the hardest to please potential tenant is spoilt for choice in today’s market. Good quality city centre properties are available at £500-£1,000 per month, while in sought-after suburbs and the region’s best rural and coastal spots Sanderson Young has a wide range of properties ranging from £1,500-£10,000 per month.

And properties are being snapped up extremely quickly. “People aren’t necessarily aware of how active this market is because they may not see many to let boards or adverts because property goes so fast,” said Duncan Young.

“You can literally put a property on the rental market

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one day, and it could be gone the next. There are good quality tenants out there who, either for reasons of flexibility or economy, choose to let their property or rent property.”

Obviously, it can be more expensive to rent than it is to pay a mortgage, but that does not take into account the economic issues affecting the market. “Simply letting your home while you wait for three years for the market to recover sufficiently for you to sell it at a better price makes economic sense,” adds Duncan Young.

“It is a vibrant market at all levels, which means the choice of properties we can offer is the best it has ever been. Corporate clients are able to place their executives in lovely family homes, while leading sports personalities are assured comfort in prestige properties.”

Sanderson Young also offers a full range of management services to landlords and many properties in the company’s residential lettings portfolio are fully served with gardeners and cleaners. sanderson Young residential lettings office, high street, Gosforth, Newcastle, offers a comprehensive service to landlords and tenants.

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Allendale, Northumberland

Burgham Park, Northumberland

They say location is all, and this furnished apartment on the third floor of a Grade I listed Georgian building in Queen Street on Newcastle Quayside oďŹ&#x20AC;ers all the benefits of the city centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cafĂŠ culture, bars and restaurants, plus peaceful river walks within minutes of the city centre.

This modernised property includes a double bedroom and new kitchen, lounge and bathroom and security intercom.

9c Queen Street, Quayside, Newcastle, ÂŁ625pcm

This six-bedroom detached house dates back to 1669 and is surrounded by six acres of gardens, grazing land and woodland. There is a stable and paddock and a separate stone-built property currently used as an art studio. This lovely home also features a breakfasting kitchen with Aga, a beamed sitting room with large inglenook fireplace and multi-fuel burning stove, a beamed dining room, home oďŹ&#x192;ce, six double bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Hindley Rae, Allendale, ÂŁ1,600pcm

This impressive stone-built property occupies one of the best locations on an exclusive development and has a three-quarter acre garden. The house overlooks a golf course and countryside and features a double height glazed atrium, kitchen/dining and family room fitted with Miele appliances and handmade cabinets, and outdoor deck and hot tub, a billiard room with a cocktail bar and a games room, five luxurious bedrooms, luxury bathrooms and en suites.

Chaswell House, Burgham Park, Felton, Morpeth

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People have come to appreciate that not all homes are selling quickly and letting or renting can make sound economic sense.

The turnaround in this sector is now so rapid that Sanderson Young’s regional lettings division often

offers a property to rent one day and secures a quality tenant for it the next.

This division has a regionwide reach and a portfolio of quality homes at every level from a rental of £400 per month to £10,000 per month.

For those who wish to maximise the value of their property, letting it out is a sound alternative to sale, and for those who value flexibility, renting offers a welcome breather from the ties of property ownership. One wonders why so many of us have never thought of it before...

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£2000 pcm

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The Granary Runnymede Road, Darras Hall, Ponteland This stunning luxury mansion, in over 他 of an acre, has been extensively remodelled and has considerable style and character with luxury interior decoration, lighting and fittings, a telephone entry system and security cameras.

Study | Drawing room | Family room | Conservatory | Kitchen | Breakfast room | Utility | Shower room/wc | 4 double bedrooms, 2 with en suite, balcony to master | Family bathroom | Self contained 1 bed apartment

Price Guide: Price on Application

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abbotswood Coldcoats Burn, Ponteland

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Price Guide: £4,000 pcm

Magnificent stone built luxury home, close to the village of Ponteland. The property has fabulous grounds of just under 7 acres, divided between private residential and equestrian use. Impressive electronic gates lead to a beautiful tree lined driveway. The grounds are delightful with a meandering stream, patio terrace, external outbuildings, 3 paddocks, professional ménage, stable block and timber double height lodge with a bedroom, lounge, kitchen and shower/wc and at first floor level a gamesroom/studio/office. There is a workshop, barn and a greenhouse (36’ x 27’).

Reception hall | Cloakroom | Separate wc | Study/working office | Drawing room | Principal lounge and dining area | Stunning kitchen | Utility Three large ground floor bedroom suites with lounge areas, two with en suites, one with private terrace | Master bedroom suite to first floor with gentlemen’s and ladies dressing rooms, private sitting area, and stunning en-suite

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The Middle wing Harbottle Castle, Harbottle Reception hallway Living room Dining room Kitchen/breakfast room Cloakroom/wc 4 Double bedrooms 2 Bathrooms Private grounds Access to River Coquet Open country views

Price Guide: Price on Application Juniper house Gubeon Wood Tranwell Woods, Morpeth Reception hallway Sitting room with inglenook Dining room Garden room Conservatory Breakfasting kitchen Master bedroom with dressing room and en suite 3 Further bedrooms Fifth bedroom/study

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Cornmoor road Whickham 5 Bedrooms Detached property Garden Double garage Furnished Family bathroom En suite to master bedroom Utility toom Kitchen Reception room

Price Guide: £2250 pcm Glastonbury Grove Jesmond 4 Bedrooms Furnished Garden Family bathroom En suite bathroom Breakfasting Kitchen Reception room Dining Room Driveway

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Moor road south Gosforth 4 Bedrooms Garden Garage Kitchen with breakfasting area Hallway En suite shower room to master bedroom Reception room Bathroom WC Central location

Price Guide: £1950 pcm Penthouse 55 Degrees North, Newcastle 3 Bedrooms City Centre location Open plan living area Duplex apartment Balcony Furnished / Unfurnished En suite shower View over the city Allocated parking

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whitebridge Close Gosforth 4 Bedrooms En suite shower room to master bedroom Family bathroom Reception room Dining kitchen Gas central heating Garage Garden WC Conservatory

Price Guide: £1100 pcm Princess Mary Court Jesmond Townhouse

En suite facilities

3 Bedrooms

Kitchen/breakfasting room

Private gated entrance

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Price Guide: £1700 pcm

Penthouse

Contemporary interior

Bedrooms

Private gated access

Furnished

Stunning vaulted ceiling

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Elmfield Gardens Gosforth Semi detached family home

Kitchen/breakfasting room

4 Bedrooms

Bespoke fixtures & fittings

Furnished

En suite facilities

Price Guide: £1100 pcm Montagu Court Gosforth Apartment

Spacious accommodation

3 Bedrooms

Sit out balcony

Unfurnished

Stunning views

Price Guide: £1050 pcm Kenton lane Kenton 3 Bedrooms

2 Reception room

Part furnished

Kitchen/breakfasting room

Garden

Pleasant views

Price Guide: £895 pcm

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hedley Terrace Gosforth 2 Bedrooms

Garden

Furnished

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Central location

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Manor Chare Quayside 2 Bedrooms

En suite to master bedroom

Quayside location

Main bathroom

Open plan living area

Allocated parking

Price Guide: £750 pcm hanover Mill Quayside 2 Bedrooms

Open plan living area

Furnished

Bathroom

Balcony

Communal areas

Price Guide: £750 pcm Knightsbridge Court Gosforth 2 Bedrooms

Allocated parking

Furnished

Kitchen

En suite to master bedroom

Open plan living area

Price Guide: £725 pcm

1 Bedroom

Communal areas

Kitchen

Furnished

Reception room

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wilson Gardens Gosforth

Price Guide: ÂŁ645,000

A most impressive 1930â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three storey semi detached house with mature landscaped gardens. This superb, six bedroom family house in the sought after area of central Gosforth has many original features including oak panelled reception hall, oak staircase to the galleried landing with stained glass and leaded window.

Entrance vestibule | Reception hall | Cloakroom/wc | Lounge | 19ft Dining room | Breakfast room | Handmade fitted kitchen | Utility room | Lovely galleried landing | Four first floor double bedrooms | Family bathroom/wc | Shower room/wc | Two further second floor bedrooms | Second floor living area | Second floor shower room/wc Externally, a driveway leads to the integral garage and a landscaped front garden. The large rear garden is beautifully maintained with paved terrace, lawned area and mature, well stocked borders, shrubs and trees.

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An excellent opportunity has arisen to purchase single or multiple units within this portfolio of 5 individually designed properties. The terraced homes all benefit from double/triple glazing, contemporary kitchens and bathrooms and access to secure parking accessed via electric gates, within the rear courtyard.

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4/5 bedroom terraced 4 bedroom terraced 2 bedroom end terraced

£299,950 £289,950 £225,000

This portfolio offers an excellent range of properties, positioned on this popular residential road, ideally situated for Jesmond’s wealth of cosmopolitan shops, bars and restaurants. Viewing is highly recommended in order to appreciate the flexibility and size of accommodation on offer.

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Moor Crescent Gosforth A rare opportunity to purchase a substantial detached house situated on one of Gosforth's most prestigious and sought after residential roads. The generous family home offers spacious accommodation over two floors with five bedrooms and two large reception rooms.

The property, enjoying some views toward the moor, has gardens set predominantly to the rear, with two driveways and a car port to the side.

Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | 23ft Sitting room | 30ft Living/dining room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Utility room Master bedroom | Dressing room area | Ensuite bathroom/wc Three further double bedrooms | Study/single bedroom Family bathroom/wc

Externally, two driveways provide parking for two to three cars, with an enclosed courtyard to the side of the property, car port, and a delightful rear garden.

Price Guide: Price on Application Elmwood Tankerville Place, Jesmond Elmwood is a handsome, three storey detached house, occupying a corner site on this quiet residential road in central Jesmond, with an attractive rear garden and detached double garage. The impressive, six bedroom family home has been refurbished throughout to provide superb family accommodation, and a lovely, private landscaped rear garden and stone terraced seating area.

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Vestibule | Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | Living room Family/morning room | Superb family kitchen/breakfast room Master bedroom | En-suite shower room/wc | Two further first floor bedrooms | Family bathroom and laundry Three second floor double bedrooms | Second floor bathroom/wc

The property has many original and traditional features including sash windows, decorative ceiling coving and a stone inglenook fireplace, as well as having a newly fitted family kitchen/breakfast room.

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GOSFORTH REGIONAL OFFICE Moor lane Whitburn, Sunderland A handsome, double fronted, detached family home, well positioned on this sought after residential road in historic Whitburn village with distant views toward the sea and coastline. The beautiful family home has accommodation set over three floors, with four versatile reception rooms and five bedrooms, all finished to a superb standard and finish.

Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | Lounge | Sitting room Family room | Impressive open plan kitchen with AGA Conservatory | Guest bedroom with ensuite shower room Three further first floor bedrooms | Bathroom | Stunning master bedroom with sea views | En-suite | Garage | Gardens

The property is set within landscaped gardens extending to approx 1/3rd acre. The picturesque Whitburn village is ideally placed for the nearby miles of beautiful coastline and beaches.

Price Guide: £665,000 Moorside North Fenham An impressive, six bedroom, semi detached house on this popular residential road, with gardens overlooking the Town Moor. The three storey, period home extends to c.3000 sq ft, and has been beautifully refurbished, combining a modern kitchen/breakfast room and bathrooms with traditional fireplaces and wood flooring. Externally, the house has a driveway with parking, a garage and a lovely lawned garden.

A great opportunity for a period family home, offering fabulous living and bedroom accommodation, and superb views to the Town Moor.

An internal viewing is essential.

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Vestibule | Reception hallway | Living room | Dining room Superb 21ft Kitchen/breakfast room | Cellar for storage Impressive 22ft master bedroom | Three further first floor double bedrooms | Family bathroom | Second floor 31ft bedroom/games room | Double bedroom | Bathroom/wc

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Clydesdale Cottage Great North Road, Clifton, Morpeth Clydesdale Cottage is part of a small, exclusive redevelopment of former farm buildings in the small hamlet of Clifton, just south of Morpeth. The stone built, detached barn, offers deceptively spacious accommodation, as well as a double garage and parking. The property occupies a stunning, private garden site of approx 0.93 acres, with beautiful gardens and views over the surrounding countryside.

Vestibule | Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | 23 ft Lounge Sitting room | Garden room | Farmhouse style kitchen/ breakfast room | Utility room | Master bedroom | Master en-suite | Three further bedrooms | Family bathroom/wc Double garage | Parking in courtyard | Landscaped garden with open views

The property is beautifully presented throughout, with stone and cast iron fireplaces, oak and slate flooring, and exposed stonework. Clifton is ideally placed on the edge of Morpeth, with good access to the A1.

Price Guide: ÂŁ645,000 roseborough road Greenside, Newcastle An impressive, five bedroom, four reception room, detached house positioned on this exclusive residential road in Greenside, with lovely open aspect views. The generous family home has versatile accommodation set over two floors, extending to approximately 2700 sq feet, with private gardens, large driveway and a triple detached garage.

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Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | 22 ft living room | Dining room | Study | 30ft kitchen/breakfast room | Family room Master bedroom | Ensuite | Guest double bedroom | Ensuite Three further double bedrooms | Bathroom | Triple garage with 27ft loft room above | Large private driveway Lawned gardens

A superb family home, well positioned for the local amenities and Metro Station at Kingston Park, easy access into the city centre and commuting within the region via the A1 trunk road.

Price Guide: ÂŁ550,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 88 | collection

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GOSFORTH REGIONAL OFFICE Boldon Mill Mansfield Court, West Boldon This impressive, four bedroom, detached luxury Grade II property has been extensively remodelled and refurbished to a very high standard by the current owners. The house has a very tasteful interior and beautiful landscaped gardens, complementing the accommodation very well.

Entrance vestibule | Reception hall | Cloakroom/wc | Circular sitting room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Ground floor master bedroom | En-suite dressing room and bathroom 2 first floor bedrooms | Bathroom | Bedroom suite including sitting room and en-suite shower room | Upper floor mezzanine | Garage

Boldon Mill is a prominent building within the area. The quality of the conversion works that have been carried out are very impressive, supported by modern luxury amenities and facilities.

Price Guide: £525,000 Northside Birtley, Chester Le Street An impressive, modern family home offering superb accommodation over three floors, all finished to high specification and finish, with stylish neutral décor. The property has excellent reception rooms to the ground floor, and four double bedrooms, two with ensuites, as well as a versatile loft room. Externally, the family home has a large driveway, an integral double garage, and a south facing rear garden.

A great family home, ideally positioned for easy access to Washington, Gateshead and the city centre, as well as commuting to the remainder of the region via the A1 trunk road.

Price Guide: £500,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 collection | 89

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Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | 24ft Living room | 18ft Cinema room | Superb 28ft kitchen/breakfast room | Family room | Utility room | Fabulous master bedroom | Guest bedroom with dressing room and ensuite | Further two bedrooms, one with an ensuite | Luxury family bathroom/wc Loft/games room

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Fenham hall Drive Fenham A superb opportunity to purchase a substantial six bedroom house, with a two bedroom self contained annexe, large gardens and garage/store. The attractive 1930's semi detached house occupies a generous, mature garden site extending to circa 0.287 acres, and has many period and traditional features including cast iron wood burner to the fireplace and beautiful bay windows.

Reception hall | Shower room | 21ft Living room | 19ft kitchen/breakfast room | Utility | Four first floor bedrooms Bathroom | Two second floor bedrooms | Annexe | Private entrance | Living room | Dining room | Kitchen | Shower room Two double bedrooms | First floor shower room

The property benefits from a long driveway, leading to a garage. The gardens are beautifully landscaped, and a terrace leads from the house and annexe, with a summerhouse, greenhouse and shed.

Price Guide: ÂŁ499,950 The Barn Brunton Lane, Brunton Bridge A superb, stone built barn conversion, with lovely private gardens, a private gated entrance, large gravel driveway and a single integral garage. The fabulous family home is well positioned off Brunton Lane, with easy access to the local shops and Metro Station at Kingston Park.

No upward chain.

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Porch | Reception hallway | Cloakroom/wc | 25ft Living room Dining room | Study | Superb 22ft family kitchen/breakfast room | Utility room | Impressive master bedroom | En-suite shower room/wc | Three further double bedrooms | Family bathroom/wc | Single integral garage

The property has generous accommodation over two floors, with three reception rooms and four double bedrooms, and features including arch byre doors and windows and wood flooring.

Price Guide: ÂŁ490,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 90 | collection

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GOSFORTH REGIONAL OFFICE high swinburne Place Newcastle A Grade II listed terraced house, positioned on a private cul de sac with landscaped gardens overlooking Summerhill Square. The impressive family home has five double bedrooms, three reception rooms and three bathrooms over five floors. The period home, in a Conservation area off Westgate Road, has original features including cast iron and marble fireplaces, ceiling roses, sash windows and wood floorboards.

Vestibule | Hallway | Family room | 15ft Kitchen/breakfast room | Impressive home office/studio | Superb 20ft drawing room | Second floor master bedroom with en-suite | Four further double bedrooms | Three bathrooms | Lovely, enclosed garden | Rear courtyard

A great opportunity for a family home, in the heart of a thriving city centre community, with versatile living and bedroom space. Viewing is essential to appreciate the quality of accommodation offered.

Price Guide: £460,000 The Foulger, The old school Nedderton Village, Northumberland A beautiful,four bedroom stone built house, forming part of the original village school dating from 1846. The Grade II listed family home, has many original features including impressive open vaulted ceilings, stone entrance portico and stone mullioned windows. The property benefits from a private walled garden, an enclosed rear courtyard patio area, parking and a double garage with electric door.

Nedderton village is ideally place for the market town of Morpeth, with its variety of shops, cafes/restaurants, leisure facilities and excellent schools for all ages.

Price Guide: £330,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 collection | 91

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Reception hallway | Impressive living room with vaulted ceiling | Contemporary fitted kitchen | Utility room | Three ground floor bedrooms, one with an ensuite | Family bathroom/wc | Spiral stairs to first floor | Lovely first floor master bedroom | En-suite shower room/wc | Double garage

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The Bothy, Castle hill Farm Crawcrook Lane, Wylam Occupying a fabulous site just to the south of the village of Wylam is this stunning, stone built conversion of 6 luxury houses. The award winning scheme in 2010 has been recognised for its quality and the beauty of the stone work as well as its convenient access and location.

Only three of the 6 properties constructed are available for sale, the others having been previously sold. The properties include high specification finishes, beautiful stone work and lovely stone wall enclosed gardens.

Castle Hill Farm is a stunning scheme, set in a lovely location set back from Crawcrook Lane to the south of Wylam, and only a short walk into the village with its pubs, local schools and shopping facilities.

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Plot of land at 254 wingrove road Fenham A fabulous garden plot with planning permission in place, REF (2011/0111/01/DET) for a four bedroom detached house and gardens.

The plot, sited within the curtilage of a property on Moorside North, would be accessed off Wingrove Road North.

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The detailed planning consent has accommodation of over 1,300 sq ft comprising; hallway, cloakroom/wc, living room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, master bedroom with en-suite shower room/wc, three further bedrooms, and a bathroom/wc.

There are no mains services connected to the plot, interested parties should make their own enquiries to statutory bodies. The boundaries shown on the particulars are indicative only.

Price Guide: £175,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 92 | collection

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GOSFORTH REGIONAL OFFICE Elgy road Gosforth A substantial detached house, with gardens, drive and a garage. The rear garden is very large, with stone flagged terrace and patio, lawned gardens, a timber summerhouse and a greenhouse.

Vestibule | Reception hall | Sitting room | Dining room Breakfast room | Kitchen | Utility room | Three double bedrooms, one with en-suite | Single bedroom | Bathroom

Price Guide: £649,950 whickham lodge rise Whickham Enjoying a magnificent elevated position set within this extremely picturesque and highly exclusive development is this very impressive, four bedroomed, detached property.

Reception hallway | Lounge | Dining room/garden room Kitchen/breakfast room | Sun room | Cloakroom/wc | Four double bedrooms | Two bathrooms | Balcony | Gardens

Price Guide: £575,000 The Courtyard Elmfield Road, Gosforth A fabulous, 3 bedroom, stone built detached property, offering a fantastic position in the heart of Gosforth, with the shops, bars and restaurants of Gosforth High Street only a short walk away.

Reception hallway | Living room | Stunning kitchen | Master bedroom | En-suite | Two further double bedrooms Bathroom | Integral garage | No upward chain

Price Guide: £499,950

An impressive, Grade II listed former Granary, overlooking the village green. The imposing, stone built property offers accommodation over two floors, and is beautifully presented throughout.

Living/dining room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Study/ bedroom four | Shower room | Sitting room | Three double bedrooms | Garage | Rear courtyard terrace | Garden

Price Guide: £499,950 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 collection | 93

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The Granary Old Ryton Village, Ryton

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Towers avenue Jesmond A four bedroom, semi-detached house on this prime residential road in Jesmond. The property offers versatile accommodation set over two floors and benefits from a west facing, private rear garden.

Reception Hallway | 23ft living/dining room | Conservatory Kitchen/breakfast room | Master bedroom | Guest bedroom with en-suite | Two further bedrooms | Garage | Gardens

Price Guide: £475,000 lintfort Picktree, Washington An attractive family home, constructed in stone, well positioned in a quiet cul de sac. The four/five bedroom house has been improved and extended with the addition of a first floor annexe.

Entrance hall | Cloakroom/wc | Living room | Dining room Study | Kitchen/breakfast room | First floor annexe |Three bedrooms | Master en-suite | Bathroom

Price Guide: £420,000 Celandine Close Whitebridge Park, Newcastle A well proportioned, detached house, well positioned in this quiet cul de sac in Whitebridge Park. This larger style family home has four double bedrooms, as well as a lovely private rear garden.

Vestibule | Hallway | Living room | 22ft Dining room | Kitchen Master bedroom | Ensuite | Three further double bedrooms Bathroom/wc | Garage | Driveway | Gardens

Price Guide: £395,000

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lansdowne Gardens Jesmond Vale A four bedroom, terraced house, occupying a superb position overlooking the green and Jesmond Dene. The house has lovely original features, including marble and cast iron fireplaces and sash windows.

Vestibule | Hallway | Living room | Dining room | Kitchen/ breakfast room | Utility room | Master bedroom | Three further bedrooms | Bathroom | Second floor bathroom | Yard

Price Guide: £350,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 94 | collection

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GOSFORTH REGIONAL OFFICE Briardene Crescent Gosforth A deceptively spacious, link detached property, with a superb standard and finish throughout. The versatile accommodation would suit buyers looking for a bungalow or house, and viewing is highly recommended.

Vestibule | Hallway | Living room | Kitchen/dining room Conservatory | Study | Three bedrooms, all with en-suites Gardens

Price Guide: £335,000 wallace street Newcastle A five bedroom house with additional land to the side, a very rare development opportunity in a prime residential area. There is lapsed planning on the adjacent land, for a single dwelling or extension.

Hallway | 22 ft Living room | Dining room | Kitchen | Two first floor double bedrooms | Bathroom/wc | Three second floor bedrooms | Bathroom/wc | Rear courtyard | Single garage

Price Guide: £335,000 orchard Close Killingworth Village A superb, four bedroom detached house, extended to the rear with an impressive garden room. The property benefits from gas central heating, double glazing, single garage and a landscaped patio garden.

Hallway | 23 ft Living room | Kitchen/breakfast room Orangery/garden room | Master bedroom with ensuite | Three further bedrooms | Bathroom | Garage | Gardens

Price Guide: £298,000

An excellent opportunity to purchase this truly unique Jesmond mews house, which has been tastefully converted and fitted with stunning interior fixtures, offered with no upward chain.

Impressive open plan living area with contemporary kitchen Utility room | Master bedroom with en-suite | Two further bedrooms | Bathroom | On street parking

Price Guide: £260,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 collection | 95

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Elsdon road Gosforth A well presented, three bedroom, terraced house on this popular residential road in Gosforth. The property has many original features including stunning marble fireplaces and stripped floor boards.

Entrance vestibule | Reception hallway | Open plan living area Kitchen | Master bedroom to first floor | Bathroom | Two further bedrooms | Front town garden | Rear courtyard

Price Guide: £249,950 Fencer hill square Gosforth An attractive, two bedroom apartment, positioned within this exclusive development with a superb southern aspect and views over Northern Rugby Ground.

Hallway | Open plan living/dining room | Kitchen | Master bedroom with en-suite | Guest bedroom | Bathroom Allocated parking | No upward chain | Resident’s gym & sauna

Price Guide: £235,000 Belle Grove Terrace Spital Tongues, Newcastle A beautiful, two bedroom, lower ground floor apartment, with a terrace and allocated parking. The flat benefits from gas central heating, sash windows and a modern fitted kitchen.

Vestibule | Impressive open plan living area with fitted kitchen | Hallway | Master bedroom | En-suite | Second double bedroom | Bathroom | Secure parking | Store

Price Guide: £218,000

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richmond lodge Moor Road South, Gosforth A two bedroom apartment, one of only four individual apartments in the building. The property benefits from attractive communal gardens, a security alarm system and residents and visitors parking to the side.

Vestibule | Hallway | Excellent open plan living room | Kitchen Two bedrooms | Ensuite/main bathroom with separate shower | Communal garden

Price Guide: £217,000 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 96 | collection

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GOSFORTH REGIONAL OFFICE Forthbanks Tower Newcastle A luxury, two bedroom apartment with fabulous views to the River Tyne and the Railway Bridge. The well proportioned apartment is situated on the 6th floor of this development.

27 ft open plan living space | High gloss fitted kitchen Master bedroom | Ensuite | Second double bedroom Bathroom | Allocated parking space

Price Guide: £180,000 Northumberland road Newcastle A unique, Grade II listed, self contained, one bedroom, lower ground conversion apartment, located in the heart of Newcastle city centre, close to Northumberland Street, the Universities and the RVI.

Entrance hallway | Living room | Inner hallway | Kitchen with access to rear parking area | Spacious double bedroom Bathroom | Courtyard | Allocated parking space

Price Guide: £164,950 russell Court Adderstone Crescent, Jesmond A two bedroom retirement apartment, ideally located for access to local shops and cafes, with good transport links into the City centre. The flat has lift and stair access and secure entry phone system.

Modern fitted kitchen with integrated appliances | Living room | Double bedroom | Single bedroom | Shower room/wc Communal gardens | Residents’ parking | No upward chain

Price Guide: £119,000

This one bedroom retirement apartment is situated within this popular development. The tastefully decorated property benefits from double glazing, electric storage heating and security entry phone system.

Generous living room | Secure parking | Lift access | Fitted kitchen | Integrated appliances | Built-in wardrobes Communal landscaped gardens | Double glazing

Price Guide: £89,950 95 High Street, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4AA | T: 0191 213 0033 collection | 97

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Cairn house Dalton

Price Guide: ÂŁ575,000

A unique, stone built family house, constructed in circa 1760, and later extended to provide a large detached property. Cairn House is well located on the eastern boundary of the village, close to Ponteland, with its excellent amenities. The village is well known for its high quality homes and good location.

Entrance hall | Sitting room | Dining room | Family room | Breakfasting kitchen | Utility room | Shower room/wc | Galleried landing | Four bedrooms | Family bathroom | Double garage | Attractive gardens

The property has had a number of improvements over recent years and benefits from an enclosed garden at the front, whilst at the rear there is a courtyard for additional parking. The property benefits from oil fired central heating and double glazing. Viewing recommended.

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This exciting scheme in the heart of Ponteland will be framed by its tall mature trees and its majestic setting, creating beautiful apartments within such a privileged location.

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Bonas hill Farm steadings Ogle Village The old Farm Steadings at Bonas Hill is set amongst stunning countryside and productive farm land. Planning permission has been granted to convert these buildings into two luxury country houses, set in grounds extending to around 1.16 acres with the possibility of more farm land and grazing available subject to separate negotiation.

The Gin Gan Barn will provide 339 sq m of luxury accommodation including 5 en-suite double bedrooms, and stunning ground floor accommodation with a new built gin gan and superb views to the south and west.

The East Barn and steadings will provide 223 sq m of accommodation, 4 bedrooms and beautiful views to the south and east.

Superb access is enjoyed into Ponteland and lovely views of the stunning countryside surrounds. Gardens will be large as this is a fabulous opportunity to create two luxury homes in such a stunning location. The barns are available in their current condition with full planning permission on file.

The Gin Gan west Barn £475,000 | East Barn £325,000 Full enquiries contact Elaine Newbigin or alison Bullock at our Ponteland office on 01661 823951

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Medburn lodge The Avenue, Medburn This spacious, detached family home occupies a village location approximately two miles from Ponteland village with its wide range of amenities, whilst also being well positioned for access into Newcastle city centre, as well as Newcastle International Airport and the A1 trunk road. The property is accessed by double timber gates leading to a block paved driveway giving access to the integral double garage.

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Reception hallway | Lounge | Swimming pool with sauna and wet room | Dining room | Kitchen/breakfast room, extended to provide a large family area | Cloakroom/wc | Utility | Master bedroom with en-suite dressing room and bathroom | Five further bedrooms, one en suite and one a games room Family bathroom

There are lawned gardens, raised decking to the swimming pool and a play area with tree house. With open fields to the rear it will have to be viewed to appreciate its position and accommodation.

Price Guide: Offers over £625,000 Coates Institute, Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9NH | T: 01661 823 951 102 | collection

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PONTELAND OFFICE Darras road Darras Hall, Ponteland A rare opportunity has arisen to purchase this mature site of approximately 0.6 acres which is offered with full planning permission.

The road frontage is approximately 83ft. The proposed dwelling is very impressive and will offer approximately 7000 sq ft of accommodation over three floors. The site has been prepared ready for construction, with the demolition of the old bungalow, leaving only a site office/storage cabin.

The proposal is for a very substantial detached house, which will include a large entrance reception hall, lounge, sitting room and a study. There is a dining room as well as a kitchen breakfast room, which has access on to a garden room.

At first floor level there will be four double bedrooms, the master has a very substantial en suite dressing room and bathroom, the other bedrooms will have en suite bathroom facilities. The second floor of the property will provide a substantial fifth bedroom suite and studio, ideal as a cinema room or entertainment area.

There is Building Regulations Approval and it also may be possible, subject to the usual consents, to submit an alternative design. Further details are available.

Price Guide: ÂŁ599,000 Eastern way Darras Hall, Ponteland Located on a prominent corner site is this beautiful detached family home, extensively renovated by the owners since 2007, and occupying 0.3 acres. The gardens are private and beautifully landscaped with fabulous lawned areas and well stocked flower and shrub borders. A gated access leads to a tarmac drive with parking for a number of cars and a detached double length garage.

This delightful home benefits from gas radiator central heating and double glazing and is very conveniently located for access to Ponteland village, as well as nearby schools and shopping facilities.

Price Guide: ÂŁ595,000 Coates Institute, Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9NH | T: 01661 823 951 collection | 103

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Entrance hall | Fitted kitchen with cooking range and white cabinets | Newly built, separate breakfast room | Newly refurbished cloakroom/wc | Sitting room with Adam marble fireplace | Conservatory | Morning room | Dining room with wood flooring | Four double bedrooms, two en-suite | Luxury family bathroom/wc

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hopside Cottage Horsley A deceptively large stone built, 5 bedroomed, cottage which is believed to have originally dated back to the 1800s and has been extensively extended and restored into a delightful five bedroom family home retaining many of the original features. Originally two cottages, this large property offers three reception rooms, breakfasting kitchen, five bedrooms, two with en suite facilities, family bathroom, study, utility room and double garage.

Entrance lobby | Hallway | Sitting room | Dining room Garden room | Breakfasting kitchen | Study | Five bedrooms two with en suites | Family bathroom | Utility | Double garage Attractive gardens | Oil fired central heating

Horsley village is conveniently located within commuting distance to Newcastle upon Tyne, Ponteland and the Tyne Valley areas. An attractive property in a good location.

Price Guide: ÂŁ550,000 richmond way Darras Hall, Ponteland This substantial detached family home is located in a quiet cul-de-sac towards the edge of exclusive Darras Hall. It has delightful views over local farmland to the rear elevation and is set within its own grounds with lawned gardens to the front and rear. With gas central heating and solar panels to boost the hot water system, viewing is recommended to fully appreciate the accommodation on offer.

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Entrance hall | Cloakroom/wc | 25ft Lounge | Conservatory Dining room | Breakfasting kitchen | Utility | Four bedrooms, master with en suite | Family bathroom | Double garage

Darras Hall has good access to local amenities which can be found within Darras Hall and Ponteland and has good commuting possibilities into Newcastle and Newcastle International Airport.

Price Guide: ÂŁ540,000 Coates Institute, Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9NH | T: 01661 823 951 104 | collection

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westgarth Ryal A superb 1870s stone built detached bungalow on a lovely garden site with dry stone walled boundaries. The property has two remote control electrically operated gated accesses and the main one leads into the main drive and courtyard. There are lovely lawned gardens with maturing trees and shrub borders.

Entrance vestibule | Principal reception room | Second reception room/office | Kitchen/breakfast room | Three bedrooms, two with en-suites | Family bathroom | Single garage with utility which shows potential to be another bedroom if required | Oil central heating | Double glazing Monitored alarm system

Ryal has a lovely old church and lies to the north west of Matfen and Stamfordham in a lovely country setting. It enjoys fabulous views to the east and links easily into Corbridge, Hexham and Newcastle.

Price Guide: ÂŁ495,000 whalton Park Gallowhill An attractive, four bedroom detached house, part of the exclusive Whalton Park estate which provides convenient access to the neighbouring villages of Whalton and Belsay and towns of Ponteland and Morpeth, both with a range of quality shopping, restaurants, educational and leisure facilities. Externally the gardens are beautifully presented with an impressive array of plants, shrubs and a small orchard.

The estate is approached by a gated entrance and private road, flanked by mature private woodland gardens. The property benefits from oil fired heating, sealed unit double glazing and security alarm.

Price Guide: ÂŁ465,000 Coates Institute, Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9NH | T: 01661 823 951 collection | 105

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Reception hallway | Sitting room | Dining room | Kitchen Breakfast room | Garden room | Cloakroom/wc | Utility | Four well proportioned bedrooms, the master with en-suite and dressing room | Family bathroom/wc | Garage

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riverside Darras Hall, Ponteland A rare opportunity to purchase a four bedroom detached bungalow within walking distance of Ponteland. A property on Riverside rarely comes to the market and this sits on a private mature site and provides good size family accommodation. The property offers considerable potential for renovation and modernisation, although having been well maintained over the years, it is somewhat dated in presentation.

Entrance vestibule | Reception hallway | Lounge | Dining room | Breakfasting kitchen | Conservatory | Master bedroom with en suite | Three further bedrooms, one currently being used as a study/utility | Garage | Mature gardens | Gas central heating | Security alarm system

There is easy access to Newcastle International Airport, which lies approximately 3 miles away, Newcastle city centre and the A1 trunk road. We would strongly recommend an internal inspection.

Price Guide: £425,000 woolsington Gardens Woolsington This detached property, originally built for the present owners in 1939, occupies an enviable position within the popular village of Woolsington. Woolsington has good access to Newcastle International Airport, Newcastle city centre and local shopping facilities and schooling at Ponteland or Kingston Park.

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Entrance lobby | Entrance hall | Lounge | Dining room Kitchen | Sun porch | Three bedrooms | Bathroom and separate wc | Garage | Gardens to the front and rear

The property offers considerable potential for renovation and we would strongly recommend an internal inspection of this unique property in order to fully appreciate the considerable potential offered.

Price Guide: £285,000 Coates Institute, Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9NH | T: 01661 823 951 106 | collection

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Crossfell Darras Hall, Ponteland This delightful, detached bungalow is set within its own grounds and is situated within a quiet cul-de-sac ideal for family life with good access to all that Ponteland and Darras Hall has to offer.

Hallway | Lounge | Dining room | Conservatory | Kitchen Utility | Four bedrooms, master en-suite | Family | bathroom /wc Double garage | Gas heating | Double glazing | Alarm

Price Guide: £425,000 Beech Court Darras Hall, Ponteland This detached bungalow is set within its own grounds with a driveway providing parking. The property is situated within a quiet cul-de-sac and offers access to all Ponteland and Darras Hall has to offer

Hallway | Lounge | Dining Room | Breakfasting Kitchen 3 Bedrooms, master with en suite | Family Bathroom | Double garage | Gas central heating | Double glazing | Alarm

Price Guide: £375,000 ingham Terrace Wylam A thoughtfully modernised, two storey, end terraced house, with gardens to the front and rear, situated in a most prominent and sought after location within the desirable Tyne Valley village of Wylam.

Entrance hall | Spacious lounge | Dining kitchen with French doors to rear garden | Utility | Spearate WC | Two bedrooms plus Box Room/Dressing Room | Bathroom

Price Guide: £285,500

A rare opportunity to purchase a two bedroom, stone built, end terraced cottage built at the turn of the last century, situated in a prime location within one of Northumberland’s most picturesque villages.

Entrance hall | Sitting Room | Breakfasting Kitchen | Two Bedrooms | Bathroom/wc | Secluded garden | Oil fired central heating | 20 minutes by car to Newcastle

Price Guide: £225,000 Coates Institute, Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9NH | T: 01661 823 951 collection | 107

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The Pele Thropton

Price Guide: ÂŁ540,000

The Pele is a charming, unique Grade II Listed stone built, detached house occupying a central position within this Northumbrian village. The original Bastle house, dating back to circa 1550, has been sympathetically extended over recent years providing modern living, while retaining many original features.

Over three levels the accommodation comprises: Reception hallway | Cloakroom/shower room/wc | 30ft formal lounge with stone barrel ceiling Conservatory with access to the rear courtyard | Fitted kitchen including Aga | Utility room | Store room | First floor galleried landing | Sitting room/bedroom two | Main bedroom | study | Bathroom/wc | Second floor - two further double bedrooms | Shower room/wc Externally, there are lawned gardens to the front and side, a courtyard garden and patio to the rear and a range of stone outbuildings, which are also listed. The property benefits from oil fired central heating, and a double garage, and access is by a shared drive.

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The white house Embleton A truly unique opportunity to purchase this superb example of a 1930’s Art Deco style detached family home, thoughtfully restored by the current owners, with stunning uninterrupted views towards Northumberland’s spectacular Heritage coastline. Set within extensive mature gardens with external lighting extending to approximately 1 acre, towards the eastern periphery of the village of Embleton.

Vestibule | Lobby | Hallway | 22ft Lounge | Conservatory Study/snug | Cloakroom/wc | Butler’s pantry | Dining room Breakfast room and fitted kitchen | Utility | Elevated sun lounge with coastal views | Master bedroom suite | Guest bedroom with en-suite | Two further bedrooms | Bathroom Separate wc

The property benefits from LPG gas central heating to radiators, comprehensive security alarm system, timber framed double glazing, double garage and outbuildings.

Price Guide: £795,000 The wynding Bamburgh A splendid, substantial family home, occupying an enviable position on the much sought after ‘Wynding’ within the coastal village of Bamburgh, enjoying spectacular views of Bamburgh Castle and Northumberland’s Heritage coastline with Holy Island in the distance, and in close proximity of the village centre and sandy beaches.

Benefiting from oil central heating, alarm system, gardens, and detached garage.

A private site with substantial lawned garden to the front, and further good sized garden including planting beds with access to the detached garage and rear lane with additional parking.

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Characterful four bedroom property over three floors Entrance hall | Cloakroom/wc | Breakfast room with Aga & fitted kitchen | Utility | Lounge | Dining room | Snug/study Conservatory | First floor: Family bathroom/wc | Separate wc Two double bedrooms | Shower room | Second floor: Two further bedrooms

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sandpiper, Village Farm Main St, North Sunderland, Seahouses Spacious four/five bedroom, fully furnished, former show home, with secluded garden and parking. Finished to a high specification combining character and charm with practical modern living. Ideal as a holiday home/investment with excellent income potential, quoted

by Grace Darling assuming a 31 week let period could generate a gross annual income of circa £39,950, or as a well proportioned family home.

Hallway | Living room with stone fireplace | Well appointed kitchen/breakfast room | Ground Floor – three bedrooms, one en-suite | Family bathroom | First floor – Fourth bedroom with en-suite | Fifth bedroom | Family bathroom | All high quality fixtures, fittings, carpets, curtains and furniture are included

Located within the Village Farm development in North Sunderland with local post office, shop and hotel, just a mile inland of Northumberland’s Heritage Coastline and 3 miles south of Bamburgh.

Price Guide: £395,000 The Granary Wandylaw An attractive and well appointed detached barn conversion, positioned towards the eastern edge of ‘Wandylaw’ which enjoys an elevated site giving views in the distance towards the sea and Bamburgh Castle. ‘The Granary’ offers characterful and generously proportioned accommodation over two levels, with extensive private walled gardens to the rear and additional paddock of approx 0.853 acres.

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Hall | Cloakroom/wc | 37’0 Lounge/dining room | Sun room Farmhouse style kitchen/dining room with snug area Ground floor bedroom with sun room | Shower room/wc First floor - master bedroom with walk-in wardrobe & en-suite Two further double bedrooms with en-suites | Fourth bedroom | Family bathroom/wc

Converted in 2008 to provide a unique luxury family home benefiting from oak internal doors and floors, travertine tiling, oil fired underfloor heating, double glazed sash style windows and security alarm system.

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oak house Prospect Close, Felton A superbly presented, uniquely designed detached family home over four levels, on an elevated site at the head of a small cul de sac close to the village centre. It enjoys primarily south facing secluded gardens of approx 0.4 acres, surrounded by mature trees with views across the valley and is an ideal location for those looking to enjoy the abundant wildlife, country/river walks and access to the coast.

Entrance hall | Cloakroom/wc | Study | Generous lounge Sun lounge | Dining room | Breakfasting kitchen | Utility room Master bedroom with en-suite and French doors to balcony Three further double bedrooms – one with en-suite | Family bathroom/wc | Fifth double bedroom/sitting room | Double garage

Completed during 2004 and constructed using natural stone with a slate roof. Finished to an exceptionally high standard, including bespoke features such as etched glass windows and external balcony.

Price Guide: £625,000 The Dunes St Aidans, Seahouses Spacious three bedroom second floor apartment forming part of The Dunes, West Wing on St Aidans, in the popular harbour town of Seahouses. The apartment is situated to the front of the main building with fabulous beach and sea views from the bedrooms and lounge, and benefits from electric heating, double glazing, two allocated parking spaces, and communal lawned gardens to both front and rear.

Superbly positioned for access to all of Northumberland’s Heritage coastline and its unspoilt beaches and dunes. This property would ideally suit those looking to invest in a holiday/second home.

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Communal entrance hallway giving access to a staircase leading to the first floor, where a private entrance door gives access to a staircase leading to the main accommodation Entrance lobby | Open plan lounge/dining room with kitchen Three double bedrooms, one with en-suite shower room Bathroom/wc

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rivergreen Amble A stylish and contemporary semi-detached home with accommodation over three levels, occupying a superb position within this exclusive award winning development, with views of Amble Marina and Braid. The property incorporates many design features rated as excellent under Eco Homes 2003, including sedum and zinc roofs, gas central heating via a condensing boiler, double glazing, and security alarm system.

Entrance hallway | Utility room | Cloakroom/wc | Generous open plan living space including a contemporary fitted kitchen with integrated appliances | Lounge | Master bedroom with en-suite and balcony | Family bathroom/wc Three further bedrooms | Cloakroom/wc | Garage | Enclosed rear garden

The harbour town of Amble with its picturesque Marina has an extensive range of local shops, banks, public houses, Health Centre and schooling for all ages.

Price Guide: £259,950 Column Mews (apartments) Wagon Way Road, Alnwick Column Mews is a superb architect designed development, and is within walking distance of Alnwick’s town centre with its wide variety of shops, restaurants and public houses, Percy Tenantry Column, Alnwick Castle and Alnwick Garden. The development comprises of ten two bedroom apartments, last few remaining, positioned in an attractive mews style setting. Show Apartment available for viewings.

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Communal entrance with entry telephone system | Private entrance hall with storage cupboard | Open plan living room with fitted kitchen and integrated appliances | Two bedrooms Bathroom/wc | Allocated parking space

The historic market town offers many leisure and shopping facilities including the Alnwick Playhouse, Willowburn Leisure centre and swimming pool, Hulne Park and the Pastures for countryside walks.

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The hollies & Mistletoe Cottage Ingram Road, Bamburgh An attractive and superbly presented Victorian end terraced property with private garden, courtyard and self contained one bedroom cottage to the rear. Utilised by the current owner as a successful holiday let investment.

The hollies Lounge | Dining/family room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Four bedrooms – master en-suite | Shower room/wc | Front garden Rear enclosed courtyard shared with Mistletoe Cottage Mistletoe Cottage Self contained one bedroom holiday cottage | First floor open plan living/dining/fitted kitchen | Separate access from the main house via a gate from the side lane

Price Guide: £450,000 Badger house Rothbury Superbly presented, stone built period town house, modernised by the current owner, benefiting from terraced gardens to the rear including a decked area, gas central heating, and double glazing.

Entrance hallway | Lounge with inglenook style fireplace and wood burning stove | Fitted kitchen/dining room | Three bedrooms | Family bathroom/wc | Parking space

Price Guide: £275,000

Charming Victorian stone built semi-detached cottage, well positioned in this attractive popular village with views over open countryside, oil central heating, timber framed double glazing, gardens.

Hall | Lounge | Dining room | Study/ground floor bedroom Fitted kitchen | Ground floor shower room/wc | Bathroom/wc Two double bedrooms | Gardens with summer house

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The Dunes St Aidans, Seahouses Three bedroom second floor apartment within the attic space, with views to the Farne Islands and along the beach towards Bamburgh Castle. Night storage heating, and garage within a separate block.

Private entrance hall with stairs leading to the main accommodation | Large open plan lounge/dining room with snug area | Fitted kitchen | Three bedrooms | Bathroom/wc View to Farne Islands

Price Guide: £179,950 high Tide Newton Barns, Newton-By-The-Sea A stone built barn conversion just outside the much sought after village of Low Newton by the Sea; from the boundaries there are stunning sea views making it an ideal second home/investment.

Open plan kitchen, dining area and vaulted lounge Bathroom/wc | Ground floor bedroom | Two further first floor bedrooms, both with shower room/wc | Parking | Paddock

Price Guide: £329,995 Dawson square Union Street, Seahouses Well presented three storey, end terraced property, with superb views from the second floor balcony towards the Farne Islands, and Bamburgh Castle. Electric heating, double glazing, and car port.

Lobby | Utility | FF - master bedroom with en-suite | Second double bedroom with dressing area | Bathroom/wc | SF lounge/dining room with balcony | Fitted kitchen

Price Guide: £239,950

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King street Seahouses Extended 1930’s detached bungalow, centrally located within this popular coastal town. This well proportioned property has been maintained to a good standard, however it may require some updating.

Lobby | Hallway | WC | Lounge | Sun room with patio doors Sitting room | Fitted kitchen | Two generous bedrooms Shower room | Garage | Attractive rear gardens

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT GILLIAN GREAVES: 01665 600170 OR GILLIAN.GREAVES@SANDERSONYOUNG.CO.UK

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Sanderson Young and The Northumberland Club are a winning combination

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anderson Young has teamed up with The Northumberland Club in the heart of Jesmond to offer an exclusive membership package.

Couples and families who apply for membership via Sanderson Young qualify for a discounted membership rate of up to 20 per cent.

This could mean a saving on a family gold membership of more than £280, bringing the annual cost down to around £1,140, or £95 per month.

For couples, the gold card membership would reduce to just under £1,000 per year, or approximately £83 per month.

Sanderson Young is committed to working with the club to increase awareness of the magnificent

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facilities available and encourage a greater level of membership throughout the local area.

The Northumberland Club is regarded as one of the North East’s premier tennis and squash clubs. In addition to tennis, squash and badminton, club members enjoy a fully equipped gym, a variety of fitness classes, table tennis, sports camps and holiday activities for children.

The club also offers a programme of social activities and has a cafe bar and function room.

The club is Lawn Tennis Association and Club Accredited and the squash club is England Squash Club Gold Club Accredited. The club runs award-winning tennis and squash development programmes and has 14 outdoor and four

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indoor tennis courts, five squash courts and four badminton courts.

To take advantage of this offer, please contact Sue Earley at Sanderson Young, tel 0191 223 3500, email susan.earley@sandersonyoung.co.uk The Northumberland Club, North Jesmond Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle, NE2 3JU, tel 0191 281 5858, www.northumberlandclub.org

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Our quality mix of country, coastal and city homes all have one thing in common â&#x20AC;&#x201C; quality, value and that all-important location.

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The new homes market continues to enjoy increased confidence and interest, discovers Jane Pikett

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Axwell Park, Blaydon

A breathtaking development of 12 individually styled stone conversions ranging from one and two bedroom cottages to spacious three and four bedroom family homes. Thoughtfully restored by local craftsmen, Glororum has spectacular views of the Northumberland coast, Bamburgh Castle and the Cheviots and is just a mile from Bamburgh with its village shops and cosy pubs, sandy beaches and opportunities locally to play golf, horse ride, cycle and walk.

A popular and much sought-after development with assistance on offer for those with limited deposits, the last properties are now available at this development

by Cussins of 24 apartments and houses. A four bedroom semi-detached show house is now for sale along with a terraced show home with the opportunity to buy with contents. The last three bedroom semi and two-bedroom duplex apartment have also been released for sale.

Only two properties remain at this landmark development of 18 contemporary townhouses designed to a high specification and set over three storeys. Glazed elevations provide uninterrupted views over Derwent Valley and the high spec includes German kitchens, Swiss bathroom fittings and natural travertine mosaics and fully opening glass wall leading to private terrace. Quality floor finishes are fitted throughout.

Prices from £235,000 Alnwick office, tel 01665 600 170

Prices from £149,950 Gosforth Office, tel 0191 213 0033

Prices from £390,000 Gosforth Office, tel 0191 213 0033

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here are few things more satisfying than moving into a new home and having to do nothing but put your furniture down and relax.

That’s a luxury generally reserved only for buyers of new homes, who appreciate the security of a 10-year guarantee and nothing to spend on decoration or repairs.

It is gratifying to see continued buoyancy in the region’s new homes market, and a steady

growth of quality, high specification homes in landmark locations.

There has been recent growth in the development of affordable homes complete with generous incentives to assist buyers, and a good stock now of high quality homes higher up the market.

The new developments profiled on these pages show the quality of development now available at all levels of the market, and indicate continued growth in the sector will continue.

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Barratt Developments’ new homes at Greenside on Kingston Park Road in Gosforth, Newcastle are competitively priced and offer thoughtfully planned homes for today's living needs. All 29 properties are detached, have pleasant garden sites and include six house types with a selection of four, five and six bedrooms. A show home and view home are open on this pleasant site which is conveniently located close to the A1 and Newcastle.

This new, affordable development boasts one and two bedroom apartments in the heart of the town with views over the rooftops towards the castle. The apartments come complete with white goods and fitted carpets and every apartment has secure parking.

All the apartments come with a 10-year Premier guarantee and a two-year customer care warranty.

Two incentives have also been introduced in order to make the process of buying as simple as possible.

Occupying a fabulous site just to the south of the village of Wylam is this stunning, stone-built conversion of six luxury houses, with three properties remaining. The award winning scheme in 2010 has been recognised for its quality and the beauty of the stone work as well as its convenient access and location. The properties include high specification finishes, beautiful stone work and lovely stone wall enclosed gardens.

Prices from £300,000 Gosforth Office, tel 0191 213 0033

Prices from £100,000 Alnwick Office, tel 01665 600 170

Prices from £249,950 Alnwick Office, tel 01665 600 170

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For anyone interested in excellent architecture and design,

Gosforth based Cussins ltd should need no introduction.

Since 1926, the Cussins name has been a guarantee of quality and that commitment to building exceptional new homes

for the North East is as strong today as ever.

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…the family run company employs their own craftsmen to ensure every home is finished to the highest standards.

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he Cussins difference is that they have no catalogue of standard designs to be shoe-horned into a site. Instead all the homes on each development are designed to meet the needs of local homebuyers and harmonise with the surrounding landscape and existing architecture. Nor do Cussins sub-contract their building work. Instead the family run company employs their own craftsmen to ensure every home is finished to the highest standards.

The success of this philosophy can be seen at their latest developments of Turner Square in Morpeth and Amytis Gardens in South Shields, and the clue to Amytis Gardens’ unique design feature is in the unusual name.

Amytis was the Persian queen for whom Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. These legendary gardens were planted around a huge pyramid to remind the queen of her mountain home. The architects of Amytis Gardens paid homage to this romantic legend by placing each new home’s garden on the first floor!

Apart from offering an enhanced feeling of security, the raised garden allows each of the 3 and 4 bedroom homes to have garages AND gardens without intruding on the surrounding area’s existing housing.

This extraordinary thinking has been recognised with an award from the prestigious Royal Institute of

Chartered Surveyors and short-listing for the LABC Building Excellence Awards.

Cussins’ winning formula of blending innovative design with the quality of construction normally associated with traditional house building has been repeated at Turner Square in Morpeth.

This development occupies a key site on the old Great North Road and an attractive scheme was essential to enhancing Morpeth’s southern aspect. Equally any new homes built here had to provide the local community with a choice of housing options.

Accordingly, Cussins’ architects designed a series of house types specifically to suit the 24 plots available.

The designs include affordable 1 and 2 bedroom apartments, spacious 3 bedroom family homes and innovative ‘link-detached’ 4 bedroom executive homes. Link-detached means two properties’ garages share a wall however the main houses are not connected.

Both sites have proved extremely popular and most

properties are now sold. However there are still four family homes available at Amytis Gardens (priced from £199,950 to £225,000) and five properties available at Turner Square (one 2 bedroom apartment £149,950, two 3 bedroom houses £169,950 and £194,950 and two 4 bedroom linked detached homes £214,950 each).

First time buyers may also be interested to know that Turner Square qualifies for the government’s First Buy scheme that offers an equity loan of up to 20% of the purchase price to help new buyers raise a deposit.

Even without FirstBuy, demand for these remaining properties is expected to be extremely high so interested persons should call Sanderson Young on 0191 213 0033 without delay.

However, if you do miss out do not despair. Cussins have recently applied for planning permission to build twenty four 3 and 4 bedroom homes (priced £165,000-£250,000) in the Seaton Delaval area so watch this space!

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BAMBURGH

MIZEN COURT Live the dream in Bamburgh.

Bamburgh’s latest luxury homes are almost gone. Now only two elegant four-bedroom town houses and two spacious five-bedroom family detached homes remain and are available from £550,000.

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Don’t miss out on an idyllic home in Mizen Court, a jewel of a development nestled in the delightful coastal gem of Bamburgh. The professionally designed interiors are equally as stunning, oozing style and quality. Bespoke kitchens,Villeroy & Boch bathrooms, music systems, limestone floors with under-floor heating, fitted carpets throughout and professionally designed landscaped gardens, all represent the attention to detail that you would expect from the award-winning Country and Coastal Homes Group.

With half of the eight beautiful luxury stone-built homes, set in an elegant and quiet cul-de-sac already

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gone, there really is no time to waste.

FOR VIEWING TIMES PLEASE CALL: Chris J. Carlisle: 07831 134932 To download a brochure visit www.smithsgore.co.uk From the A1 take the turning signposted for Adderstone/Bamburgh/ Lucker/B1341, follow the B1341 for 4½ miles. Upon entering the village, Mizen Court, Bamburgh is on the left hand side.

Alternatively from Seahouses, take the coastal route for 3 miles.

Continue on the B1341 (Front St), as you leave the village Mizen Court is on the right hand side. Sat nav ref: NE69 7BG

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wheels steel Mark Anderson lives to regret a rash promise to join a bike ride.

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’m a good egg, everyone says so, but sometimes this gets me into a lot of bother.

Take a party last year - there was alcohol involved, you understand - when the charming Rosie McGlade persuaded me that cycling from Tynemouth to Edinburgh in aid of the Newcastle-based aid organisation No Strings was an absolutely brilliant idea.

Now, I can ride a bike, but haven’t really done so in earnest since the 1970s when I was the proud owner of a purple Raleigh Chopper. Never mind, I thought, with training I’ll be fine. And of course I proceeded to do absolutely nothing for seven months.

As sponsorship forms and details of the route circulated I eventually dragged the bike out of the garage to find the tyres flat and the chain rusty.

Undaunted, I slipped into some fetching Lycra shorts and embarked on a 10-mile ride, by the end of which my thighs were on fire and the old undercarriage was seriously chafed.

In eight weeks’ time I was going to ride 190 miles in the company of men who knock off that sort of distance after a hard day down the pit. Clearly, I was going to need some help.

Salvation arrived in the shape of Joe Waugh at M Steel

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Cycles in Newcastle. Joe won a gold medal at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982 and is a legend in the sport. He kitted me out with a bike and introduced me to Dave Buchan, a ‘body fit’ technician who fits bodies to bikes.

My ride was taking in the roads and cycle paths of the Coast & Castles route to Edinburgh, and Dave expertly matched me to a hybrid bike from the Trek range, which has the sturdy frame and handlebars of a mountain bike and the slim wheels of a road model.

The difference was phenomenal, and within a few weeks I was regularly riding 20 miles. My confidence rose.

And so to the ride; we covered 60 miles from Tynemouth to Seahouses on day one on a beautiful coastal route in kind weather. Things were going well.

Then, after breakfast on day two, I hit some sand and gravel and took a serious tumble. By the time we got to Berwick I was really struggling and the last 20 miles to Melrose, by which point we had covered over 120 miles, were torture.

Next day it became apparent I had cracked a rib and I had to complete the last 50 miles to Edinburgh in a taxi.

In the end, it was clear I hadn’t done anything like enough training, but I’m proud of my achievement. A total of 120 miles in two days is some distance for a beginner and, you never know, I might just do it again.

One day. Maybe.

For North East cycle routes see www.visitnortheastengland.com

M Steel Cycles operates the government tax-free bike purchase scheme: www.msteelcycles.co.uk Mark and friends raised more than £3,500 for No Strings, the Newcastle-based aid organisation which educates children in the developing world about threats to life using films made by former Muppet puppeteers in New York. No Strings now needs urgent support for a new appeal to extend its disaster preparedness programme helping children survive natural disasters. To support the appeal, see www.nostrings.org.uk

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Arthur Wharton, the world’s first black professional footballer, began his career in Darlington FC. His legacy has been taken up by Shaun Campbell. Rosie McGlade meets a man on a passionate mission

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t’s six months since I last met Shaun Campbell. “There’s LOADS happened since then,” he enthuses. “I was in London yesterday, where a master chocolatier from Belgium made a chocolate statue of Arthur Wharton.

“The High Commissioner of Ghana was there and I was shown detailed plans for an Arthur Wharton Stadium for Tema, Ghana.

“We also recently did a talk at the House of Commons and presented FA chairman David Bernstein with a maquette in return for their contribution to our campaign, and there was talk of the full-scale statue appearing at Wembley ahead of the Olympic Games.

“There are also two documentary teams following us around now, and there’s just been a short film made about Arthur’s time in Darlington.”

While Shaun is too modest to take credit for all of this, his is the whirlwind energy leading

it all, inspired by a story he finds little short of heroic.

Arthur Wharton was the world’s first black professional footballer. He moved to Darlington from Ghana in 1883, and under the umbrella of Darlington Football Club ran the world’s first 100 yard record in 10 seconds in 1886, wearing pig skin shoes on a shingle track at Stamford Bridge in London.

“On top of that, he was a professional cricketer, a British cycling champion, and played both codes of rugby,” Shaun says. “For me, his greatest achievement is that in Victorian England, at a time when football was brutal and the lower classes lived in sickness, deprivation and poverty, he played seven games of football in 10 days to raise money to feed the poor.

“He would no doubt have received racist remarks at a time when scientists talked about the black man as inferior.”

It is an incredible story which has propelled Shaun into an impassioned campaign to have Arthur Wharton’s achievements celebrated with a statue in Darlington later this year.

“There’s also two documentary teams following us around now, and there’s just been a short film made about Arthur’s time in Darlington”

It’s hard to know where to begin to describe Shaun’s enthusiasm. He has been interviewed on Radio 4 alongside former footballer (England’s first black player) Viv Anderson, now a patron of the Arthur Wharton Foundation set up by Shaun two years ago.

He has stood alongside Stevie Wonder at Birmingham’s NEC to address a 14,000 crowd about Wharton, Rio Ferdinand supports the campaign, as do Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs and numerous other stars.

Ian Botham turned up in Shaun’s shop, Drum – a beautiful and unusual furniture store in Darlington’s Grange Road - and stripped to his waist, demanding an Arthur Wharton T-shirt in honour of his prowess on the cricket field.

Alongside furniture from all over the world, the shop displays pictures of sporting and other celebrities lending support, signed sports shirts and two beautiful bronze maquette statues. One will go to Wembley following a £20,000 donation from the FA, and the other will go to UEFA in Zurich, which donated £17,500.

“Isn’t this incredible when you look round and think about it, really,” Shaun says, genuinely amazed by the support the campaign has generated. “It will be the first statue of a black footballer in this country, which will in part honour the contribution to football of so many black people who have made it here since.”

Wharton left Ghana in West Africa to study as a

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Methodist preacher at Darlington’s Cleveland College.

He was spotted by Manny Hebron, then trainer of Darlington FC, and played in the town until 1888.

He died an alcoholic in a sanatorium in 1930 and his body lay in an unmarked grave in Edlington near Doncaster until 1997 when the body Football Unites, Racism Divides funded a headstone.

In 1886, The Northern Echo led a campaign for Arthur Wharton to play for England, but it was 91 years before Viv Anderson donned an England shirt.

Shaun has spent the day before our interview with Paul Canoville, Chelsea’s first black player who was greeted with racist jeers by the team’s own fans when he first set foot on the pitch in 1982. The two visited Feetham’s -Darlington’s old ground, which has stood empty since 2003.

“It was emotional for both of us,” Shaun says. “The old pitch – the one Arthur Wharton played on was covered in litter and needles. The site was bequeathed to the town by a benefactor who requested it was always available for recreational purposes, but now they’re wanting to build a housing estate on it.”

In some ways the real jolt is how far this country has come since Wharton’s day and there are now so many black players wearing the England shirt. For Shaun, a permanent statue of Wharton is the most fitting tribute.

“It’s a piece of public art, and celebration of this particular achiever in history,” he says.

“In Warwick, there’s a statue of Randolph Turpin, who was an amazing boxer who beat the great Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. There’s a statue in London of Nelson Mandela and one of a black woman holding aloft a child - a symbol of the achievements of the black who came here from the West Indies in the Windrush years, of which my father was one.”

Does he ever tire? “No, I really don’t . I feel I have a responsibility now. I give lots of talks around the country to children and various groups, and they are so inspired by what I can tell them. That’s what keeps me going.

“I believe we have a responsibility to protect the rich football heritage of this country, the founding nation of football, and Arthur Wharton has a very important part in that story.”

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“It was emotional for both of us,” Shaun says.

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John Lowrie Morrison, the great contemporary painter of the Scottish Isles, has been granted a solo show at The Sage Gateshead – a first for the iconic venue.

Philip Gregory seeks out the man at work

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olomo does not quite live in the sticks, but once you leave the main road and pass over the Crinan Canal, the roads become narrower, the trees closer, the sense of leaving mainstream urban life is more pronounced.

Rumble into Tayvallich with its pretty harbour, take a couple of turns and twists through hills and over a small stone bridge and Morrison’s home and studio looms into view.

A sign denotes that he lives and works here, but that the place is private, though the artist himself appears anything but guarded. Rather, this phenomenally successful artist, lay preacher, father and philanthropist is friendly and welcoming. Morrison, who is famed for his vividly expressionist landscapes, is sparky and loquacious, quick to smile and laugh.

This personal warmth, along with the vitality of his landscapes and his Christian faith, have led some, he says, to paint a picture of “jolly Jolomo”.

That fictional soul effortlessly knocks out several pictures a day – of crofts and fields, hens and moons, beaches and distant gauzy mountains – smiling benignly all the while before dashing off some charity work, writing a sermon or two, and picking up awards and commendations on his way. The truth is, as ever, more complex.

A former art teacher, Morrison turned to painting full time in 1997, a decision that has amply paid off. He

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of sells £2m-worth of his work each year, though half this income goes to galleries and more to taxes, the Church and charities.

People love his work, he says, for its vitality. “They wake up on a Monday morning, they have to go to work and the paintings cheer them up. Do they cheer me up? Yes. I cannot wait to paint every day. Nothing in this world would stop me.”

He rises daily at 7.30am, eats, goes to the studio, reads some scriptures and says a short prayer for his family.

“I always commit the work I do in the day to God,” he explains. Then he checks his emails and sets up his work for the day.

It is a family business: his wife Maureen, a former nurse, runs the office and looks after the images (Jolomo photographs his paintings). Their sons, Calum, Peter and Simon also help, particularly with framing.

His work is fluid, and done fast. His painting has not always been so free and bold, or featured the wild slashes of light and colour that his collectors and fans love so much now. When he was at school, he would paint “like it was a photograph”. Later, as a student at the Glasgow School of Art from 1967 to 1971, he could have become a hyper-realist. “But I like to be free,” he says.

He traces his love of the countryside to his childhood and frequent holidays to the family hut in Carbeth, and stories from his father’s family croft in north Harris.

Morrison now has a house and studio on Mull. “I’m a

painter, and I love the land,” he says. “We have been here in Tayvallich for 40 years and I don’t get tired of the views. I love the rain, I love a storm. I love the snow as well as blue skies and sunshine. Those things resonate with me.”

John Lowrie Morrison, in conjunction with The Corymella Scott Gallery, is selling a collection of paintings entitled Visions of the Western Isles from November 21-27 2011 at The Sage Gateshead. For more information, contact Corrymella Scott, tel 07763 789 112, www.corrymellascottgallery.co.uk

Above: Beached boats at Haun Isle of Eriskay

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Artist Wilson Smith is sellng his life’s work to help fund research into the disease that killed his wife. Rosie McGlade meets him at his Northumberland home

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here’s something very gentlemanly about Wilson Smith, very likeable, and something extremely refined about his beautiful home.

And yet by choice he sleeps in his studio, just in case the mood to paint takes hold during the night.

His home is full of his work, but his paintings are all going, for charity, because his beloved wife died three years ago and it seems the natural thing to do. If he misses them, he can always paint more.

“Painting is what I do,” he says. “Sometimes I jump out of bed and have a look at one of them, maybe make a change. Pretty strange,” he laughs, “but it’s sort of my life’s thing at the moment.”

Wilson has been painting since he was knee high, he

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says. He’s now 78, and is now been selling his work to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK in memory of his wife Jean.

Alzheimer’s is complex to understand for anyone who hasn’t been close to it, which is why one particular painting here is so instructive, and perhaps why, out of so many in his home, it demands your attention. It shows an old lady who looks lost, yet somehow aware at the same time, and clearly frightened. The feeling of isolation it leaves you with is shocking, like a lived nightmare, and it makes you feel deeply compassionate.

Not all Wilson’s paintings are dark - far from it. There are children on the steps of the British Museum, ballet dancers, a collection of beautiful nudes, still lifes, rivers

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“I just paint what I like,” he says, making it sound so simple. “That’s the whole point.

If I see something I like, I just paint it…”

and country scenes, St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, huge, interesting abstracts, all oils on canvas and all of them beautifully done. There’s a collection of five paintings in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec, which will sell together to form an exciting acquisition for any collector. Wilson originally painted them for his own wood-panelled dining room, capturing the techniques, brush strokes and colour palette of the French master to create canvases hard to tell apart from Toulouse-Lautrec’s own.

“I just paint what I like,” he says, making it sound so simple. “That’s the whole point. If I see something I like, I just paint it. I think it’s the way a painter should be, really.”

We’re in the large, sunny extension the Smith family added after moving to their 17th Century Northumberland home in 1994, and there are paintings everywhere, more than 50 of them, about to go on sale.

The painting of the woman with Alzheimer’s hangs above us. Jean? “Not anyone specific, no,” Wilson responds gently, “just a person I had in my mind as I was working. I would often ask Jean to sit for me, but she never liked the idea.

“The experience of the condition really affected me.

This woman I’ve painted obviously doesn’t know where she is. She’s in a bit of a state; you can see from her eyes that she’s lost, which is what Alzheimer’s people are.

“When you see someone dying in front of you it sets off the need to do something, however small, to help somehow. On June 16 2008 I saw my wife die in front of me, and from that day on I felt I had really got to do something.

“She was such an intelligent woman, and to see someone like that die in that way is dreadful. And it’s affected me every day since. Even when I’m painting I think of my wife.

“Over the seven years she had Alzheimer’s she lost a piece of her life every month or so, until she could no longer walk or talk. At the end, she couldn’t eat or drink. It was dreadful.

“I thought, something has to be done, and the only thing I could do was paint really. I’m privileged to be able to do that.”

Wilson’s talents were evident from an early age, his first commission a mural in his primary school in Epping, where he grew up, and at the age of 11, during the air raids of the Second World War, he was presented to Winston Churchill as a talented young artist.

He studied art and design before entering National Service in 1950 where he trained RAF recruits, and

Below: 3 Trees by Wilson Smith

where he was commissioned to paint the Queen.

On leaving National Service, Wilson worked on leading advertising and design accounts in London, and then moved to Northumberland, setting up his own family business, Smith Creative, in Newcastle, in which both his wife and his two sons have worked.

Alzheimer’s research is an area that’s grossly underfunded, Wilson feels. “I was lucky in that I was able to care for my wife for five years, but she kept falling. She was in specialised care for the last two years.

“I remember talking to the doctor and she said to me, ‘I don’t know how to treat this’. There was nothing they could give her. All they could do was make sure she was as safe as they could. That’s why more research is so vitally needed.”

Dementia should not be thought of as a normal part of ageing – it is caused by brain diseases, of which Alzheimer’s is the most common form. Symptoms can include the gradual loss of memory, communication skills and the ability to think and reason clearly.

According to Alzheimer’s Research UK, there are 820,000 people across the UK living with dementia today, including 4,000 in Northumberland alone, with numbers forecast to rise substantially in the next generation. The only way to help reduce its impact on sufferers it through research, and yet investment lags far behind that of other serious diseases.

Miranda Mays, Community Fundraising Manager, says the charity has been deeply touched by Wilson’s contribution. “We rely entirely on supporters like Wilson, and his incredibly generous gesture, to fund our world-class research.”

Contact Wilson Smith via Alzheimer’s Research uK, tel 01223 843 899

Below: Suffolk Mill by Wilson Smith

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Jane Pikett dreams of a life when she can drive Bentley’s new Continental GT every day

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press release has just landed on my desk heralding the launch of the Bentley Collection - a small, limited-edition range of exclusive leather goods, “crafted to enhance the seamless link of quality and design between driver and machine”.

I like that - “crafted to enhance the seamless link of quality and design between driver and machine”. I wish I’d come up with that, whizzing along the A69 on my daily commute in my Volvo estate, complete with dog hairs and muddy wellies.

No doubt, if I drove a Bentley every day I would come up with such fulsome prose with ease. Certainly, the mere thought of the new Continental GTC is enough

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to bring out the Pulitzer Prize winner in anyone.

Obviously, Bentley cars are in a league all of their own; icons of motoring of which the Continental GT is a deserved star – a classic Bentley melded with contemporary design and modern technology.

This car fuses supercar performance and handcrafted luxury, and its latest incarnation benefits from increases in power, torque and fuel efficiency. Indeed, the Continental GT’s engine is renowned as one of the

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most technologically advanced of its kind. This thing can run on the latest environmentally sustainable bio-fuels and is even faster than its predecessor due to a significantly increased power output.

Gear change times have also been reduced by a stunning 50 per cent and this model launches to 60mph in just 4.4 seconds and reaches a top speed of 198mph (though not when I’m driving it, m’lud).

The coupé’s wide, low-sprung appearance not only looks good, its width means it sits aggressively low to the road, allowing stability at all speeds and in all circumstances, even when I’m driving it.

State-of-the-art suspension, including something called Intelligent Continuous Damping Control, constantly monitors the car’s attitude and poise, while one of the world’s most advanced all-wheel-drive systems ensures that all the power the 12-cylinder engine generates is utilised.

A combination of touch-screen controls and classic rotary switches offers crystal-clear feedback and the touch-screen navigation technology, audio system and telephone are comfortably at your fingertips.

That audio system is, as you might expect, an industry leader, continuing the skilful blend of heritage styling and contemporary excellence.

The new GT profile is characteristic of the marque, feauring a classic Bentley matrix radiator grille, jewel-effect headlights and distinctive rear floating LED lamps.

State-of-the-art suspension, including something called Intelligent Continuous Damping Control, constantly monitors the car’s attitude and poise…

The flared tailpipes drive home the Continental GT’s sporting credentials, while its interior designers have skilfully evolved the car’s cabin to produce a stylish and cocooning space.

The distinctive ‘cobra’ design seats boast the latest body-supporting materials, front-seat ventilation and a state-of-the-art massage system, and there is a host of beautiful leather hide options, veneers, engine-spun metal fascias and paint colours to choose from.

Oh, and you can now invest in a host of accessories to complement your new car, including Bentley sunglasses in a range of materials from fine wood to Asian water buffalo horn and made-to-order 18ct white, yellow and rose gold. A snip, with prices starting at around £7,000.

Now then, where’s my chequebook?

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hiddengems Jane Pikett discovers some wonderful places to shop, eat,

and stay awhile …

dough Works Stuck for something to do on a rainy day? So make bread!

Artisan baker Ann Cudworth set up her Dough Works workshops a few months ago and is now hosting workshops for all sorts, from rugby players to the WI. You can go along to her home in North Shields in a small group, or with your kids, or invite Ann to come and do one of her workshops in your chosen premises.

The idea is this – she gives you the basics of bread making, you get stuck in and knead, prove and bake and then go home with a basket of gorgeous bread, just like your granny used to make.

Who knew dough could be so much fun? dough Works, tel 0191 296 5393, www.doughworks.co.uk

Stephanie’s Flowers Imagine being able to say you’ve bought your flowers from someone trained by the Queen’s florist, no less!

Stephanie’s Flowers in Durham city and Whitley Bay is run by Stephanie Smith, who trained in London under Judith Blacklock, one of the primary suppliers of flowers to the royal households.

Stephanie and her partner Peter Grant both gave up high-flying corporate jobs to launch the business earlier this year and its reputation has grown quickly among corporate and private clients.

The business also supplied blue roses for the lapels of Whitley Bay football club players on their visit last season to Wembley for the FA Vase. Talk about moving in lofty circles!

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In-toto Kitchens If you need a kitchen, you probably need John McNeil - an extremely talented designer with a true passion for creating fantastic kitchens and developing personal relationships with customers to create rooms that reflect their personality.

Top quality cabinets individually crafted with stateof-the-art appliances are John’s stock in trade, and they are installed to the highest standards, which means that you can confidently expect a stunning kitchen that will provide years of service.

John’s business, In-toto, is part of a national network owned by Europe's largest quality kitchen manufacturer, Alno/Wellmann, itself part owned by Whirlpool. He is a franchise owner, which means you benefit from the credibility and scale of a leading fitted kitchen brand, but also enjoy the personal attention and service of a business owner.

Always remember that installation is key to quality, and it is essential that fitters are fully qualified to handle gas, electricity and water supplies to ensure that your kitchen is installed in accordance with required safety standards.

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East Knitsley Grange Farm It’s easy enough to buy local and free-range meat these days, but can you really say you know how the animals which made the ultimate sacrifice lived and died?

Knitsley Farm Shop provides absolute traceability in its produce raised by Edward Jewson, the sixth generation of his family to farm at Knitsley near Consett, who cares for his animals right through to slaughter at nearby Witton-le-Wear.

Knitsley Farm Shop beef from Edward’s Aberdeen Angus cross females is hung on the carcass for 21

days before being butchered on site by the skilled butchery team. The lamb is from the farm’s own stock and the pork is from traditional breeds bought as weaners and store pigs.

Knitsley’s Farm Shop has a full butchery and deli, handmade pies, local ale and wine, sweet goods, preserves, cooking sauces and puddings and Knitsley produce recently won two Great Taste one star Gold awards.

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163 Interiors Re-covering old chair frames in funky, contemporary fabrics is very de rigeur these days, and very much a part of the vibe at the newly opened 163 Interiors in Whitley Bay. Owner Sam Gillin, 23, a graduate of interior design, trawls antique and vintage markets and auctions for goods to restore and sell through the shop,

which is a haven of all things antique, vintage and just lovely.

Every piece is hand restored by Sam and specialists who share a passion for design and bringing old things back to life.

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